Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:59:30 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Thinkpad drive noise [was Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR] Message-ID: <16725.49170.832685.52908@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <868yayfcw6.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.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>
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> [...] > > - My only niggles with the machine at this point are: > > Actually, there's one other gripe that's been growing on me. 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...). It seems to happen more when I'm on AC power, which is confusing. If anyone has any insight into power management and IBM/Hitachi disk drives, I'd love to hear it. My drive identifies itself as an "HTS548080M9AT00/MG4OA5BA". g.
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