On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:43:54AM +1100, Anthony O'Hara wrote: > Booting Gentoo results in an odd beeping noise coming from the hard > drive.. It just sits there making a very quiet and subtle morse > code noise over and over and over again.
I don't think it is your hard drive, there was a period a while ago where a lot of people were complaining about noise, and it was apparently capacitors resonating due to changed timer frequency. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/7/69 as one example. Approaches include turning down the timer frequency and booting with APCI off. ISTR that it was fixed in later kernels, so maybe try 2.6.15. -i
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