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[ale] [OT] my hard drive raid array is making funny noises....
- Subject: [ale] [OT] my hard drive raid array is making funny noises....
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:26:45 -0500
- In-reply-to: <CAEo=5Py0faoM-ovc-=T7W82uCcjC9nuNnz12kY7bop4ubH_zvw@mail.gmail.com> (Jim Kinney's message of "Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:18:45 -0500")
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Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
> OK. I get the lead drive (top center facing the camera) sound is made by
> driving the head to seek to make tones. The other drives are a zillion years
> old and aren't moving fast enough (to my eye) to make the low tones I'm
> hearing. Start up noises, maybe?
>
> heh, heh. talk about "techno" tunes :-)
They are floppy drives, so they are spinning slower than an HDD. It's
probably a combination of specific sector reads to get the heads to move
appropriately for the various frequencies.
Man this is a cool hack!
-derek
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