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Subject: Re: Thinkpad drive noise [was Re: Thinkpad  Hidden Partition & MBR]
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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.