[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 04:07:36 am Ande's Help .Net Info wrote:
>   
>> It sounds as if the hard drive could be getting indexed.  Some hard drives
>> are louder than others when being searched by the system for file indexing.
>>     
>
> That's a good thought. Even so, it shouldn't be that noisy. If it is the old 
> IDE drive I'm going to decommission it. Maybe at the shooting range :)
>
> Carla
>
>   
Carla,

Is that windows drive mounted under linux? If not, then no SW action on 
Linux will access it.
The reason i asked about entries in the system logs, is that in my 
experience a grinding sound from the disk indicates a broken disk.

Good luck,

Rudy