[ltp] T60p vibrating hard drive

Mendel Cooper linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:45:12 -0700 (MST)


On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, shorty wrote:

> Thirdly, the thing vibrates :( I had noticed this
> earlier, but put it down to maybe a more powerfull fan for the cpu/gpu.
> Today however, I decided to investigate further. Much to my dismay, when
> i set hdparm to standby the disk after 5 seconds, the vibration stopped!

As I recall, certain of the older IBM laptop hard drives had
vibration issues -- namely the 8 Gb HD and especially the experimental
25 Gb drive. They ran quite reliably, but did make noise.