Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:32:53 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad drive noise [was Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR] Message-ID: <16726.61237.963931.470799@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <4155C147.8050902@gmx.de> 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> <4155C147.8050902@gmx.de>
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Jochen Gensch writes: > 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, > [...] That'd probably be Feature tool, which is available at: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm I used it to turn on acoustics management and power savings, it's made the disk a bit quieter and it doesn't do the sssshhh-tunk-ing thing as much (someone else here pointed out that it's a temperature related thing). Cool tool! g.
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