Disk noises and Tyan S2468UGN

[Steve Cousins]

I've observed these noises and believe it has something to do with the
Predictive Failure Analysis that the drive does.  According to IBM's web
site at: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/ipl/oem/tech/pfa.htm:

"A (sic) periodic intervals, PFA's Generalized Error Measurement (GEM)
automatically performs a suite of self-diagnostic tests which measure
changes in the disk drive's component characteristics."

Steve
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