[ltp] quieter harddrive for the thinkpad 240?

[Sven Dowideit]

bummer, it means that the hard-drive that you have doesn't support it
(err kind of)

my dvd drive also replies in this way, but i know that when i had it as
a windows box that there was an acoustic setting - i might just have to
look into that too..

can you send me the log from hdparm -Ii /dev/hda
(though i probably can't do anything, i am now curious  :)

sven

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 21:08, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> On 10/17/03 06:17:36, Sven Dowideit wrote:
> > hey there,
> > just to make sure, have you used hdparm (or powertweak soon) to set
> > the
> > hard-drive's acoustic management paramter?
> > 
> > i mean hdparm -M 128 /dev/hda
> > 
> > on my T21 i found that to make a huge difference
> 
> No, in fact I didn't know there _was_ an acoustic management parameter,  
> but setting this to any value (between 128 and 254, as indicated by the  
> hdparm manual) yeilds the message:
> (in this example the command was 'hdparm -M 200 /dev/hda')
> "/dev/hda:
>  setting acoustic management to 200
>  HDIO_SET_ACOUSTIC failed: Input/output error
>  HDIO_SET_ACOUSTIC failed: Input/output error"
> 
> so I'm thinking the thinkpad 240 doesn't have that technology.
> 
> hdparm -y will suspend the disk, but not for long as the system doesn't  
> seem to want to leave the disk alone.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Kacper