From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 19:04:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C675E16A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:04:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEA3D43D2F for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:04:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from incmc@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 24844 invoked by uid 65534); 25 Sep 2004 19:04:42 -0000 Received: from p5089F73B.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO ms.homeip.net) (80.137.247.59) by mail.gmx.net (mp009) with SMTP; 25 Sep 2004 21:04:42 +0200 X-Authenticated: #15946415 Received: from [10.0.0.101] (helo=[10.0.0.101]) by ms.homeip.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1CBHqq-000Ml7-6z; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:04:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4155C147.8050902@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:04:39 +0200 From: Jochen Gensch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040826) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> <16725.44602.612991.895661@satchel.alerce.com> <868yayfcw6.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> <16725.49170.832685.52908@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <16725.49170.832685.52908@satchel.alerce.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Thinkpad drive noise [was Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR] X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:04:44 -0000 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