[ltp] X61 or X61s (loud fan)

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:49:05AM +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> Le jeu 21 aoû 2008 10:58:31 CEST, Nikolaos Lampadariou
> <nlamp@her.hcmr.gr> a écrit :
> 
> > The pitch noise every 5 sec is probably the Load_Cycle_Counts issue. 
> > Check it out with the smartctl tool. There are fixes around (the call it 
> > the uggly fix) and I could fix this issue on my previous laptop when I 
> > was running debian etch. But not with lenny on the x61s, so when its 
> > annoying me I can stop it manually with "hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda"
> 
> Just a remark : the good value is 254, not 255 :
> hdparm -B 254 <your disk>
> 
> [don't find the link telling more about this, sorry]

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking ?
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Yves-Alexis