I hear the sound of a dying harddrive ... Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2017 schrieb Philip Ashmore: > Hi there. > > I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone. > > To those who would prefer a description: > It starts fast and slows down. I opened the file with Audacity and > determined the intervals to be 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 10, 15 seconds, then it > repeats. > > It sounds like some kind of protocol negotiation algorithm that requires > a disk sync when the polling time doubles. > > Here's a link for your listening pleasure: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/apdr1o056tam5ie/click.wav?dl=0 > > I'm hoping it's some cron job, or DropBox, Trinity Desktop, wifi, smart > disk status monitoring, nVidia, Intel, ... not a virus trying to phone home. > > I'm really hoping that someone reading this will go "oh that thing" and > know what it is instantly. > > Curiously it doesn't happen every day. > > Regards, > Philip Ashmore > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
