-=> PAUL WILLIAMS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 PW> Hi Wayne Chirnside, hope you are having a nice day

 RJT>>I've heard of something with a drive making clicking noises, am rather
 RJT>>tired at the moment so I can't say just what. What brand is the drive?
 RJT>>Maybe somebody else will jump on this one...
 WC> Quantum Fireball, all sectors good.
 WC> The clich could well be from the power suppy too as the case
 WC>wason I couldn't localize.

 PW>  Fwiw I had a 2.1G scsi fireball in this system that did the same
 PW> thing. Problem seems to be right at the power conn on the drive but I
 PW> can't get any closer than that to what's causing it.

 PW>  You could start the system and just hear it spin up, click, rattle,
 PW> spin up, click....

 PW>  Other times it'd start up ok but after several minutes here you'd
 PW> go again and if it did it that way then the drive would cause all
 PW> sorts of probs w/ disk access in the rest of the system. (which since
 PW> all the other drives were ide is a head scratcher)

Thanks for the input... just when I'd convinced myself it was 
the PS, still leaning that way.
Will swap drives and find out for certain.
 
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