[ltp] Noisy harddisk shutdown

[Bram van Leur]

Maybe I'm a little paranoid, but I've definitely got the feeling my
drive (60GB in T42) does the djjj-CLACK! sound only under normal
operation in Linux. Most of the time my drive is quiet the first hour
or so, but suddenly it start making the sound say once every minute.

I'm a little afraid it will shorten its live.

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 05:53:05 +0100, Benjam=ED Villoslada <benjami@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:37:18 +0000, Jan Frey wrote:
> > What I meant is a really loud CLACK when hd goes completely down. It so=
unds
> > as if power was just taken away from the drive instead of telling it to
> > park heads and spin down...
>=20
> In my case when the hd goes completely down, the sound is different
> between APM and ACPI:
>=20
> - APM (and Windows): park head click and smooth spin off
> - ACPI: CLACK! ... the same sound in some forced system stops, pushing
> the power button.
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