[ltp] X61 or X61s (loud fan)

[Frédéric BOITEUX]

Le jeu 21 aoû 2008 10:58:31 CEST, Nikolaos Lampadariou
<nlamp@her.hcmr.gr> a écrit :

> The pitch noise every 5 sec is probably the Load_Cycle_Counts issue. 
> Check it out with the smartctl tool. There are fixes around (the call it=
 
> the uggly fix) and I could fix this issue on my previous laptop when I 
> was running debian etch. But not with lenny on the x61s, so when its 
> annoying me I can stop it manually with "hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda"

Just a remark : the good value is 254, not 255 :
hdparm -B 254 <your disk>

[don't find the link telling more about this, sorry]

	Fred.