Re: laptop harddrive noise

[Lubos Vrbka <lists@vrbka.net>]

yag wrote:
> You may want to check this.
>
> > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
interesting page... thanks for the link.

i seem to experience the same problem, however, on different disk
  Vendor: ATA       Model: FUJITSU MHV2060B  Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
smartmontools tell me that this drive doesn't support SMART. the 
clicking occurs irregularly (i mean it starts irregularly and it is not 
reproducible), but then the clicking itself is very regular and persists 
until the reboot. the drive is usually idle when clicking starts, some 
activity (e.g., updatedb) stops it for some moments, but then it occurs 
again.
it usually starts when the notebook is on ac, i'm not sure whether it 
happened also on battery.
i recall trying the hdparm -B trick, but i think it didn't work :(

regards,

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