I think that guys@empeg explained it somethilg like this:
1) No box: drive spun down
2) Empty box: drive being spun up (and down?)
3) Box with grey dots: drive spun up (nominal rotational speed), no data transfer
4) Box with white dots: data being transferred
I am not sure whether heads seeking qualify as case 3 or 4 :) Also, I am not sure I'he ever caught it in situation #2.
BTW, are your disk's seeks rather loud? I can hear mine almost across the room (if amp is switched off, of course - music at any normal volume drowns the noise completely). Anyway, it is much louder than my IBM laptop (with, presumably, similar, though much smaller, drive). Hm, perhaps I should postpone waranty-voiding upgrade to two-disk configuration and give this one some more time to fail...
Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green