Comment 39 for bug 59695

I wonder if it's going into sleep, and then trying to write to the log
that it has gone to sleep.. That would be a big 'duh'.

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 22:43 +0000, Kamil Páral wrote:
> I have Dell Latitude C640 with Western Digital 40GB. The harddisk is 3
> days old (brand new) and I have 900 load cycle count. My harddisk
> "clicks" (increases load cycle count) roughly twice a minute (regardless
> battery or AC mode), but (this is important) only when there is
> absolutely no other harddisk activity. If I use some app which few times
> a minute reads or writes a file, there is no load cycle count increase.
>
> I have also tried Windows XP - there is no cycle count increase, no hdd
> clicking. In BIOS, hdd clicks once (the sound is distinguishable from
> normal activity) - after that, it's silent. In Ubuntu 7.10, twice a
> minute.
>
> For those who have IBM/Hitachi, you can try download Hitachi Feature Tool
> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
> and disable/tweak APM manually right from that livecd. Maybe after that you will not have to hack scripts (maybe it can "force" the APM setting), but I am not sure of that.
>