Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, green wrote:
> wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500:
> > A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started
> > to behave strange.
> > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks
> > starts to click every few minutes, and after each click the
> > Load_Cycle_Count (as reported by smartctl -a /dev/sda ) increases by
> > 1.
>
> You might want to look at the idle3-tools package and
> http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net
Added to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking,
thanks.
Although wzab mentioned problems with a Seagate drive as well, so
Intellipark might not be the root cause...
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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