Re: Thinkpad drive noise [was Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR]
Jochen Gensch <[email protected]>
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George Hartzell wrote: > When I first got the machine, it was totally silent. > > Now, I hear disk noises. I think that the disk is trying to park its > head, and/or spin down to save power, but something keeps touching it > and it has to restart. > > I've been down this road before w/ a previous laptop and didn't have > much luck figuring it out. It's just a "dink", followed a short time > later by a "ssssshhhh-tunk" (yep, sounds *just* like that...). As far as I remmeber there is a program, located at the ibm website, with which one you can adjust the power management of your IBM hard drive. I used it myself once to get rid of this speeding up / down issue. You are right, it is a power management feature. So I just set it to no power save in there, that kept the drive at constant sound. Hope that helps... Jochen _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"