Tina:
I don't know if anyone has responded to this. Apparently what is
happening (in my opinion) is the drive heads are parking/unparking to
save power. There's a little thing called APM Tuner (Apple Power
Manager Tuner) that allows you to change the hard drive sleep settings.
I had success with it on my iBook. Some drives are worse than others.
Gary
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 05:18 PM, Tina Holm wrote:
> Just when I really didn't need it.
>
> It's a 30 gb Maxtor Diamond, 14 months old. Monday night it said
> tick-tock
> 6 or 7 times and I couldn't activate anything. The tick tock stopped
> and
> the Mac continued what it was doing (NS 7 loading a java applet on some
> website).
>
> Then I heard nothing of tick-tock until today. Just 1 time tick-tock,
> and I
> immediatly started a panick-back up attack. Tick-tock again, s***! It's
> done that about 5 times today.
>
> I've heard that sound and seen that behaviour before, from several
> dying,
> old scsi drives, so I assume it's the hd.
>
> There's a 3 year warranty, so I've got another drive from the store
> where I
> bought it, and moved everything over.
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