usually there are diagnostic tools provided by the manufacturer of the drive, i would investigate those. and in a fit of paranoia make a backup of all data i care about. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > On a similar note, my old desktop system, which has several hardrives of > various sizes and ages, has int he last week or two started making on odd > sound that I am guessing is the read/write head being pulled back as if to > power down, then let back out again. It is clearly not affecting the drive I > am running off of, but I do not know of any tool or system monitor that > would help me isolate which drive is going. I must apologize in advance for > having not yet even attempted to research this on the web. When Mike brought > up the general topic, I decided to chime in and see if anyone remembers > something that might be useful off the top of their heads. If not, I should > be able to tell when it goes hard failure, and it is unlikely to take my > main partition with it, so no big deal. Thanks again in advance for the > help. > > Mike > > -- > But he lives on in a Horcrux named Siri > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss