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SubjectRe: [LINUX-KERNEL] HDD Noise stopped with cat /dev/zero
Hahahah... exactly what my 386sx20 PS/1 does when I used to go into 
windoze screen savers... a sort of faint clicking/humming... definetly
the cpu, since none of the disks were being accesses and i dont have any
network cards... when i put my ear up to my machine, i could tell it was
coming from the direction of the cpu too... (not my speakers)..
weird

On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, David Monro wrote:

> Dunno - but I have an old machine where I can here noises from the ancient hard
> drive (we are talking 8 year old 40Mb MFM here) when network traffic is going
> through the machine - go figure. (And no, it isn't the drive doing things -
> the disk select light (remember those?) isn't even on). If I have the sound
> card plugged in I get to listen to the traffic quite loudly too :-(
>
> I've also had at least two machines which made strange noises when the case was
> open and in quiet surroundings with no sound card or anything - again network
> traffic was triggering the noises, though I have no idea why I could hear it.
> I can remember one particularly strange incident where I could here noises
> when I was running a CPU intensive job (raytracing) as opposed to the machine
> being idle. I can only guess I am hearing subharmonics of the bus traffic but
> I find that hard to believe.
>
> Just one of those things I guess.
>
> David
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a curiosity... Sometimes I'm really annoyed with the hdd noise,
> > that I think has some interaction with my ppp link !?!? One day I, don't
> > remember why, issued the magic words "cat /dev/zero" and... that noise
> > stopped!!! As soon as I cancelled the cat the noise returns!!! Any
> > comments???
> >
> > []s,
> >
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