Robert Hancock wrote:
Gavin Cameron wrote:
What do you think? Just a knackered drive and nothing to do with
libata at all?
Yeah, it's possible that what you're hearing isn't a head unload at all,
but some kind of abnormal recalibration noise, etc.
Hi again,
Just to follow up on this. I installed a new hard drive yesterday and
magically this horrible sounding noise has stopped. So, it looks like
the hard drive was doing that on it's own - as you say, perhaps a
re-calibration cycle due to the excessive CRC errors.
Anyway, sorry for wild goose chase, but many, many thanks for pointing
me down the path that made me discover that my /home partition didn't
have long to live. I managed to transfer all data over sucessfully :-)
Best regards,
Gavin.
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