FWIW, I've had two 12 month old IBM Deathstars go in the last 3 weeks. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=71
The "tapping" was more of a grinding when running scandisk. David David wrote:
every time I have had tapping sounds from a disk, a hardware failure has
happened soon afterwards. I strongly suggest you do a thorough back up as
a first step.
It depends what you mean by "tapping" ....
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bruce Badger wrote:
I'm running a Woody system (installed from the SLUG/Debian CD, needless
to say :-) ), and there is something going on that is causing the disk
to be constantly accessed. It's like a constant tapping sound as the
disk is being hit.
How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is there a cool
monitor out there that I can use to find out?
Thanks.
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