"Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <John@falseaddress.com> wrote in message
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> > This is a Sony PCG 9A4N. It's a Japanese key board model (My wife is
> > Japanese).
> > I took the cmos battery out but not for more than a few minutes and it
> > didn't loose its date... It could have been 5 minutes or so???
> > I have to wait until she comes home before I attack it further.
> > When it attempts to find the operating system I hear "tap, tap tap tap
> > tap"
> You are hearing the sound of a dead drive.
> Jim

A-yup. Happened to me last month on one of two
60G IBM's in a RAID-0 array.

I got lucky - let the system set for a day, deleted and
recreated the RAID array in the BIOS, and was able
to access it long enough to scrape the data off of it
before replacing it.

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