scott wrote:
>> What confuses me is I can turn on a hard drive that has no activity on 
>> it, and it'll sit there making little chuckling noises, seeking around 
>> and such. Like, even a USB drive not plugged into a USB cable will 
>> click and seek and such.  I'm assuming the firmware is testing the 
>> drive or something, looking for sectors to spare out, but it' kind of 
>> weird.
> 
> Probably some sort of continuous calibration system to account for 
> temperature changes etc, I guess the head movement mechanisms need to be 
> controlled pretty accurately!

Yeah, I always thought the sounds a HD makes when turned on was just the 
drive mechanism trying to find track 0 or something like that.

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