From: Alan Cox (iiitac@swan.pyr)
Date: 08/04/93 

From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Odd Hard Drive Noises under Linux
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 09:27:55 GMT

I get a similar long descending rattle and I have done since I installed
ex2fs. It would appear that its just Linux being smart whenever it syncs
the disk - and the rattle is it doing short seeks and writing everything
in a sensible order.

ALan