On 19.Okt.2013, at 23:50, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
On 19/10/13 05:44 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
Ok, I entered the command as root (not working as a regular user)
and get this edited version (to keep my message short) of
information:
All your edited version tells us is what drive this is. To actually
know what shape the drive is in, we need to see the section that
starts out something like:
"SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:"
Greg
OK, I guess this is the data you are asking for (I trimmed the other part again to make the message short):
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
...
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 035 035 000 Old_age Always - 656598
...
Is this a laptop? I guess it is.
The firmware in your harddisk is parking it's head and you hear it click (or maybe it clicks when it is waking up).
You can set the APM level for the disk with hdparm or smartctl
try to get the current value like that
# smartctl -g apm /dev/sda
or with
# hdparm -I /dev/sda
it is probably at 128 or lower
set it to a higher value
192 or even 254, this is hard disk vendor dependent, unfortunately.
google for load cycle count and you will find plenty results.
This seems to be a problem with a lot of disks.