[Sticks]

Actually with IBM harddisks it isn't all that rare. Just look at the IBM 65GXP and 75GXP series disks. Tons of failures, all starting with that click of death, which actually is the disk arm resetting into the park area intermittently due to a faulty controller.

[deep_eyes]

might i suggest the cloak (once u redo the build),  appy to the awacs as well?

[kasperl]

DE: That's for the modder to determine. You should be able to cloak anything, from a cargo container to a Collusus.

[Trivial Psychic]

I think he was refering to what degree an AWACS can pick up a cloaked ship, if at all.

On the "click of death" thing, I had this happen late last year with my 30GB IBM 7200rpm drive.  Fortunately for me, I had just bought a new 120GB Western Digital and had transfered all of my archive files to that drive.  I did lose some of my FS2 work, but not everything.  Once the "click" takes over, your drive is gonna be done for... sorry Bob.

Later!

[CP5670]

This would open up a lot of interesting ideas, but it should probably be up to the mod/mission designer what effects cloaking should have. Maybe it could be made into a sexp.

It's really frustrating when things like the happen. I have never had a total disk-wide faliure (before I noticed it and backed up stuff) but wouldn't want to think of what would happen if that occurred. How long do you think it will take to redo the effect?

75GXP

I had one of these die on me last year, although it wasn't so much of a click of death as a whine of death that got became very loud over a two-month period. It was sounding like an airplane when I finally disconnected it.

My current HD also seems to be having trouble as it always locks up (along with the rest of the computer) for ten or so seconds after writing about 44mb, after which everything is okay again, but I think that it's an issue with a loose internal connection (occasionally the hard drive disconnects and the system cannot read it at all during boot, but shaking the computer a bit fixes it) or the ATA controller, which I will be removing soon anyway once I get some time.

[Bobboau]

it wasn't a total disck wide failure the only reason I lost the file with the effect in it was becase everything locked up as I happened to start the build process (I'm actualy lucky I didn't lose more), the issues had started just moments prior but I didn't notice untill it was too late, the problem isn't even with the disk the file is on, it's the disck that has my xp install thats fuxorated

[ShadowDrakken]

I recently had one of my Maxtors fail, it was way past due tho, thing was 5+ years old, which is a good run time for a HDD that's on 24/7/356

No click death with it, but Maxtor and Seagate are just super quiet drives so you usually don't hear them going... usually the disk goes before the controller, but occasionally the control goes first, and that's the worst kind cause you only get a couple days to grab as much as you can before it's too late

[Bobboau]

well I never stored anything vital on the disk, other than the OS anyway

[SadisticSid]

Meh, I've got a 60GB IBM drive (IDE) that's been intermittently doing the death-click thing for 6 months but working fine atm... whenever I move the base unit it seems to start clicking again and I have to jiggle the drive around a bit to get it working again

Not really a long-term solution but there's nothing valuable on it anyway

[Deathstorm V2]

There is a temporary solution to the click of death: fdisk.

Delete and recreate the partition, and you'll be click free for a while.  Not very subtle and rather painful.

Worked for me, until I managed to talk IBM into a replacement.

(BTW, that was IBM's advice to me)