[ltp] IBM Thinkpad R52: Curious Sound of Harddisk during Shutdown

[Neil McGovern]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:09:32AM +0100, Oliver Hagen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in recently installed SuSE Linux 10.0 on an IBM Thinkpad R52 
> and nearly everything went out of the box.
> 
> There is only one little "Problem" left :
> 
> When shutting down the system, an high-pitched sound - like harddrive is spinning up and suddenly 
> power-supply is disconnected - appears before the Laptop turns off.
> 
> May this behaviour cause damage to the disk ? And how to avoid this ?
> 

This page:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_pitch_noises
may provide some insight as to possible causes.

Regards,
Neil
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