Originally Posted By: mlord
The rattling is normal in a lot of those drives.


Yes, it went OK for a couple of years like that but then it must have become too loose and fell out of its locating socket. I think the lever had something to do with head parking. After it fell out I think the heads were able to swing freely across the platters when the disk was stopped hence the data loss and segfault errors.
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