[ltp] G41 ticking

[Peter B. West]

Andrew Haninger wrote:
> On 8/9/05, Peter B. West <lists@pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
>>Not wanting to be spinning the disk up and down in normal usage, I
>>experimented with some of the hdparm settings which were also in
>>/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf.
>>
>>I can't be entirely sure yet, but it seems that changing the power
>>management setting (-B) to 254 has solved the problem.  I haven't heard
>>the ticking since I set that value for AC running.
> 
> FWIW, you might like to check out noflushd for shutting down the hard
> drive after a period of inactivity. Normally, the disk will spin right
> back up, defeating point of shutting the drive down. With noflushd,
> the disk stays off until it really needs to spin up.
> 
> The only problem is that noflushd doesn't work with journaling filesystem :-/
> 
> The site is at noflushd.sf.net. The http and ftp download links on
> that page are dead, but if you click on the "project info" link, you
> can get the latest version.
> 
> -Andy

The drive was spinning down for me when I set the timeout to a low 
value, then spinning up when I did anything requiring disc access.

I've just found 
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
which echoes my experience.  Pity I didn't look for it earlier.

Peter
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