[ltp] Noisy harddisk shutdown

[Martin Spasov]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 05:53 +0100, Benjam=ED Villoslada 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...
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> In my case when the hd goes completely down, the sound is different
> between APM and ACPI:
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> - 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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Hi,

I can confirm this, happening with my FUJITSU MHT2040AH on a t42. This
shouldn't be a problem at all (or at least I hope), however I'll report
if I get something odd...

PS. Almost in every notebook documentation, there is stated that
'clack-clicking' is normal.
.
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Martin Spasov <mspasov@techno-link.com>