OT: tibook keeps making clunk sound

[Terry Richards]

> Your hand rests on the DVD/CD-RW drive. I have had problems with the 
> CD-RW drive that result in multiple unsuccessful accesses, each of 
> which results in a "clunk." Do you have a CD-ROM in the drive? Does 
> the sound change if you remove the CD, or if you insert a CD?

i thought it might be the dvd/cd-rw but putting a cd in under macosx did 
not stop it.  i moved a copy of nemo to the desktop and the sound 
continued, pressing the eject button caused the cd icon to disappear and 
there was no icon afterwords in finder under computer. i had to reboot 
and go into ydl to eject that cd. i am currently in ydl with a cd 
loaded<looney tunes> and there is no problem now _but_ it is an 
intermitent problem and it was doing it for a while right after i booted 
into ydl so ??? .... the first time this happened i eventually could not 
boot and after calling apple tech i bought a new hd///problem solved. it 
sounds like the clunk of heads on a hd repeated trying to access data. 
but it could be the dvd-cd-rw...has to be one or the other, right?  why 
would a new hd make it go away for a couple months?

:-)^2