HDD Plays Tune

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Matt Sissons

Hi,

My 120 gig hard drive (maxtor diamondmax 9+) won't detect at all and
insists on playing a little tune to me instead - even when it's only got
power and not connected to my board. Entertaining as it is, it's a bit
rubbish as a storage device. My board is a gigabyte GA7-VRXP.

The maxtor site says that "maxtor hard drives do not contain speakers" -
seems logical enough but it still does it even when my PC speaker is
disconnected, and definitely seems to be coming from the drive. It's not
drive noise, that's for sure - it's several pure tones that sound like a
non-polyphonic mobile. Aargh!

The drive itself is about 18 months old I think, so it's not at the
stage where it's going to start falling to pieces. It's hardly been used
in the last 6 months in any case.

Anybody come across this before?

Cheers,

Matt
 
Matt Sissons said:
Hi,

My 120 gig hard drive (maxtor diamondmax 9+) won't detect at all and
insists on playing a little tune to me instead - even when it's only got
power and not connected to my board. Entertaining as it is, it's a bit
rubbish as a storage device. My board is a gigabyte GA7-VRXP.

The maxtor site says that "maxtor hard drives do not contain speakers" -
seems logical enough but it still does it even when my PC speaker is
disconnected, and definitely seems to be coming from the drive. It's not
drive noise, that's for sure - it's several pure tones that sound like a
non-polyphonic mobile. Aargh!

The drive itself is about 18 months old I think, so it's not at the
stage where it's going to start falling to pieces. It's hardly been used
in the last 6 months in any case.

Anybody come across this before?

Cheers,

Matt
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I have not come across this phenomenon personally, but some years ago,
when I was still using my Amiga regularly, I heard about a small Amiga
program that makes the HDD sing. It was not malware, but a legitimate
toy program that was accompanied by a warning that it might be harmful
to the drive. It could be turned on and off or uninstalled at will. I
didn't install it and I don't know exactly what it sounded like. Maybe
a more malicious version exists for the PC and was installed without
your knowledge by some malware.
 
Yes, i remember that Amiga program myself - it was called "Floppy Music"

Thats right, it did do serious drive damage. The program i had would do a
dummy read & write to the floppy drive, so you heard a rather worrying
grating noise, and the floppy drive light would flash on and off. Did
destroy drives
 
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