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Hard Drive Clicking Noises on Seagate Free Agent Drives Ouch 04-07-2008
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Posted by BillW50 on April 12, 2008, 9:31 pm
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Rob Simpson typed on 13 Apr 2008 08:36:53 +1200:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:15:26 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open
> with toothpicks and wrote:
>
>> typed on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:19 +1200:
>>> They don't work on USB Drives..
>>>
>>> Also if you had read my Post you would also see why Plus Modern
>>> drives to track recalibrating to allow for heating on the Disk..
>>
>> Some of them actually do work on external USB drives.
>
> You managed to decipher that? I must hunt up my alternative grammar
> glasses.

Despite what the educated stuckup academia tries to teach you. The
majority still rules! Besides academia are the dumbest people I have
ever met in my life. Those that can't do, teach! LOL

I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way! -- Mark
Twain

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. --
Mark Twain pg. 69 (1870)

Jonathan Swift once said about 250 years ago: "When a true genius
appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are
all in confederacy against him."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein

"I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain

So Rob! Have any words of wisdom you wish to share? If so, I would love
to hear them! LOL

--
Bill


Posted by Rob Simpson on April 12, 2008, 11:11 pm
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:31:32 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open with
toothpicks and wrote:

> Rob Simpson typed on 13 Apr 2008 08:36:53 +1200:
>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:15:26 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open
>> with toothpicks and wrote:
>>
>>> typed on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:19 +1200:
>>>> They don't work on USB Drives..
>>>>
>>>> Also if you had read my Post you would also see why Plus Modern
>>>> drives to track recalibrating to allow for heating on the Disk..
>>>
>>> Some of them actually do work on external USB drives.
>>
>> You managed to decipher that? I must hunt up my alternative grammar
>> glasses.
>
> Despite what the educated stuckup academia tries to teach you. The
> majority still rules! Besides academia are the dumbest people I have
> ever met in my life. Those that can't do, teach! LOL
>
> I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way! -- Mark
> Twain
>
> The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. --
> Mark Twain pg. 69 (1870)
>
> Jonathan Swift once said about 250 years ago: "When a true genius
> appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are
> all in confederacy against him."
>
> "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
> counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein
>
> "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
>
> So Rob! Have any words of wisdom you wish to share? If so, I would love
> to hear them! LOL

Yes Bill, I do have something to say, though I'll leave it up to your
opinion on whether they are words of wisdom. After all, you seem to think
you know wisdom when you see it by relying on a couple of old cliches and
backing them up with a few quotes. Very little original words of your own.

I don't know whether you realise that "Brian Matthews" is just the latest
nym of this ng's pet troll and village idiot. When Woger posts, sometimes
it's humorous, often insulting, often hard to decipher because of his
propensity to leave out punctuation and to use uppercase when you least
expect it, he is often self-contradicting and on rare occasions he
provides useful information. I honestly had trouble deciphering that
sentence of his at the top of this post.

As far as "educated stuckup academia" goes, if it wasn't for them you
wouldn't be sitting in a comfortable chair using a pc to look up quotes to
throw around with gleeful abandon, leaving me to wonder what in hell
you're on about. I mean, you try to come across as an uneducated man
prepared to offend anyone you think is putting on a superior attitude by
attacking their decision to listen to their schoolteachers. Something
which you must have done at some stage, if only to learn how to read and
write and how to gain enough skills to get and retain a job so that you
could buy a pc and then we go in circles back to the start of this
paragraph.

Just for your enlightenment, though lord knows why I'm bothering to
provide personal information to a caveman, I didn't quite make it to the
halls of academia, possibly known to you as tertiary education, (Too hard?
University? Does that help?) because I left school at 15 for reasons which
you have no need to know. Despite my lack of advanced education, I still
listened to people who knew more than I did in areas that interested me,
and basically carried on with self-education. Enough to get me employment
in reasonably well paid positions. At the same time I carried on speaking
and writing English to the best of my ability, because Bill, strangely
enough, good communication skills do actually help people to understand
each other.

So if my use of an attempt at a semi-humorous response above still offends
you, I'll put it in language even an uneducated Luddite should be able to
understand.

You can sit on it and rotate.


--
Rob - Linux user number 467898 Ubuntu User number 17166
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Posted by G.G.Willikers on April 13, 2008, 3:37 am
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Rob Simpson wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:31:32 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open with
> toothpicks and wrote:
>
>> Rob Simpson typed on 13 Apr 2008 08:36:53 +1200:
>>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:15:26 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open
>>> with toothpicks and wrote:
>>>
>>>> typed on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:19 +1200:
>>>>> They don't work on USB Drives..
>>>>>
>>>>> Also if you had read my Post you would also see why Plus Modern
>>>>> drives to track recalibrating to allow for heating on the Disk..
>>>> Some of them actually do work on external USB drives.
>>> You managed to decipher that? I must hunt up my alternative grammar
>>> glasses.
>> Despite what the educated stuckup academia tries to teach you. The
>> majority still rules! Besides academia are the dumbest people I have
>> ever met in my life. Those that can't do, teach! LOL
>>
>> I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way! -- Mark
>> Twain
>>
>> The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. --
>> Mark Twain pg. 69 (1870)
>>
>> Jonathan Swift once said about 250 years ago: "When a true genius
>> appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are
>> all in confederacy against him."
>>
>> "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
>> counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein
>>
>> "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
>>
>> So Rob! Have any words of wisdom you wish to share? If so, I would love
>> to hear them! LOL
>
> Yes Bill, I do have something to say, though I'll leave it up to your
> opinion on whether they are words of wisdom. After all, you seem to think
> you know wisdom when you see it by relying on a couple of old cliches and
> backing them up with a few quotes. Very little original words of your own.
>
> I don't know whether you realise that "Brian Matthews" is just the latest
> nym of this ng's pet troll and village idiot. When Woger posts, sometimes
> it's humorous, often insulting, often hard to decipher because of his
> propensity to leave out punctuation and to use uppercase when you least
> expect it, he is often self-contradicting and on rare occasions he
> provides useful information. I honestly had trouble deciphering that
> sentence of his at the top of this post.
>
> As far as "educated stuckup academia" goes, if it wasn't for them you
> wouldn't be sitting in a comfortable chair using a pc to look up quotes to
> throw around with gleeful abandon, leaving me to wonder what in hell
> you're on about. I mean, you try to come across as an uneducated man
> prepared to offend anyone you think is putting on a superior attitude by
> attacking their decision to listen to their schoolteachers. Something
> which you must have done at some stage, if only to learn how to read and
> write and how to gain enough skills to get and retain a job so that you
> could buy a pc and then we go in circles back to the start of this
> paragraph.
>
> Just for your enlightenment, though lord knows why I'm bothering to
> provide personal information to a caveman, I didn't quite make it to the
> halls of academia, possibly known to you as tertiary education, (Too hard?
> University? Does that help?) because I left school at 15 for reasons which
> you have no need to know. Despite my lack of advanced education, I still
> listened to people who knew more than I did in areas that interested me,
> and basically carried on with self-education. Enough to get me employment
> in reasonably well paid positions. At the same time I carried on speaking
> and writing English to the best of my ability, because Bill, strangely
> enough, good communication skills do actually help people to understand
> each other.
>
> So if my use of an attempt at a semi-humorous response above still offends
> you, I'll put it in language even an uneducated Luddite should be able to
> understand.
>
> You can sit on it and rotate.
>
>
Well said.
(forgot to attribute the quote to the FONZ though) ;}

Posted by BillW50 on April 13, 2008, 7:25 am
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Rob Simpson typed on 13 Apr 2008 15:11:29 +1200:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:31:32 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open
> with toothpicks and wrote:
>
>> Rob Simpson typed on 13 Apr 2008 08:36:53 +1200:
>>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:15:26 -0500, BillW50 propped his eyelids open
>>> with toothpicks and wrote:
>>>
>>>> typed on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:19 +1200:
>>>>> They don't work on USB Drives..
>>>>>
>>>>> Also if you had read my Post you would also see why Plus Modern
>>>>> drives to track recalibrating to allow for heating on the Disk..
>>>>
>>>> Some of them actually do work on external USB drives.
>>>
>>> You managed to decipher that? I must hunt up my alternative grammar
>>> glasses.
>>
>> Despite what the educated stuckup academia tries to teach you. The
>> majority still rules! Besides academia are the dumbest people I have
>> ever met in my life. Those that can't do, teach! LOL
>>
>> I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way! --
>> Mark Twain
>>
>> The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at
>> all. -- Mark Twain pg. 69 (1870)
>>
>> Jonathan Swift once said about 250 years ago: "When a true genius
>> appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces
>> are all in confederacy against him."
>>
>> "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
>> counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein
>>
>> "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
>>
>> So Rob! Have any words of wisdom you wish to share? If so, I would
>> love to hear them! LOL
>
> Yes Bill, I do have something to say, though I'll leave it up to your
> opinion on whether they are words of wisdom. After all, you seem to
> think you know wisdom when you see it by relying on a couple of old
> cliches and backing them up with a few quotes. Very little original
> words of your own.

Apparently you don't understand the wisdom from many great minds one can
quote from.

> I don't know whether you realise that "Brian Matthews" is just the
> latest nym of this ng's pet troll and village idiot. When Woger
> posts, sometimes it's humorous, often insulting, often hard to
> decipher because of his propensity to leave out punctuation and to
> use uppercase when you least expect it, he is often
> self-contradicting and on rare occasions he provides useful
> information. I honestly had trouble deciphering that sentence of his
> at the top of this post.

I have no knowledge about such silliness.

> As far as "educated stuckup academia" goes, if it wasn't for them you
> wouldn't be sitting in a comfortable chair using a pc to look up
> quotes to throw around with gleeful abandon, leaving me to wonder
> what in hell you're on about. I mean, you try to come across as an
> uneducated man prepared to offend anyone you think is putting on a
> superior attitude by attacking their decision to listen to their
> schoolteachers. Something which you must have done at some stage, if
> only to learn how to read and write and how to gain enough skills to
> get and retain a job so that you could buy a pc and then we go in
> circles back to the start of this paragraph.

You have it all wrong! If it wasn't for drop outs like Gates, you
wouldn't have a computer to type on. If you didn't see the PBS
documentary "Triumph of the Nerds", you really should. As it shows how
so-called dumb computer nerds creamed the so-called smart academia.

I can write volumes of books on this stuff. But here is just one little
tidbit you can chew over. Academia is trying very hard to get everyone
taking yearly flu shots. People dumb enough to listen to those dummies,
apparently don't know what they put in those shots. There are many bad
things in flu shots and one of them is mercury. And mercury is only
going to make the masses dumber and dumber. And if you believe these
people are smart, they are not.

> Just for your enlightenment, though lord knows why I'm bothering to
> provide personal information to a caveman, I didn't quite make it to
> the halls of academia, possibly known to you as tertiary education,
> (Too hard? University? Does that help?) because I left school at 15
> for reasons which you have no need to know. Despite my lack of
> advanced education, I still listened to people who knew more than I
> did in areas that interested me, and basically carried on with
> self-education. Enough to get me employment in reasonably well paid
> positions. At the same time I carried on speaking and writing English
> to the best of my ability, because Bill, strangely enough, good
> communication skills do actually help people to understand each other.

Caveman? Would a caveman challenge the wisdom of say Einstein? You sure
have many things wrong off of the bat. Nor are you sharing anything
intelligent either. While I am doing just the opposite.

> So if my use of an attempt at a semi-humorous response above still
> offends you, I'll put it in language even an uneducated Luddite
> should be able to understand.
>
> You can sit on it and rotate.

Ah your cognitive dissonance is showing again.

--
Bill


Posted by Mark C on April 8, 2008, 8:03 pm
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> Ouch wrote:
>> (snip)
>> Has anyone else experienced clicking noises on external hard
>> drives? Do such noises really indicate that something is wrong,
>> or is the hard drive likely to operate satisfactorily for many
>> years even with these intermittent clicking noises? Is there
>> any software that I can run that will check out whether there
>> is anything wrong with the drive?

> You should be able to have a better look at what is happening
> using a tool to look at the drive's S.M.A.R.T. data.

Ouch: SMART tools often don't work with USB drives, but for
reference, smartmontools can read smart data from my WD MyBook
external USB2 HDD, with some tweaking of the command line.
Maybe it can also work for Seagate Free Agent drives?

AND Seagate SMART 'attributes' are non-standard or somesuch...
(recent thread)

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