Hi all,
I've got an ancient SCSI Quantum Fireball SE with an issue. It's in an old Power Macintosh 7200/120.
When I turn the computer on, the computer does start booting into the operating system - I get a Happy Mac, then the Welcome to Mac OS 8.6 comes up. So, the hard drive at least works a little.
However, not too long in the boot process, the hard drive starts making an angry buzzing noise - then a tick-tick - then another buzzing noise, etc. You can hear this starting around 00:20 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucAU_tFm1uU.
It's not the end of the world to me if this disk dies, so I carefully removed the lid to see what was happening. I still can't figure out why the buzzing noise is occurring - here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oczo3wnYLAk&feature=share.
Any ideas on what could be the issue with this drive? I've heard that the angry buzzing is a symptom of the drive dying, but I am curious what part of the drive is actually failing.