Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:30:45 -0500 (CDT) | From | cowzilla@gwbbs ... | Subject | Re: [LINUX-KERNEL] HDD Noise stopped with cat /dev/zero |
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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, > > > > Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo http://www.conectiva.com.br/~acme > > R&D Director mailto:acme@conectiva.com.br > > Conectiva Internet Solutions http://www.conectiva.com.br > > Curitiba - Parana - Brasil Phone/Fax +55-41-222-6533 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Do not become attached to the things you like, do not maintain aversion to > > the things you dislike. Sorrow, fear and bondage come from one's likes and > > dislikes. > > -- BUDDHA > >
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