Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-10 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it starts > > unloading again. > > It sounds like

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-09 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it starts > unloading again. It sounds like it does work, but something else is changing the settings on

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/09/2017 09:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer mailto:r...@gmx.net>> wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:28:37 -0500 Fulko Hew mailto:fulko@gmail.com>> wrote: > I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 > drive.

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:28:37 -0500 > Fulko Hew wrote: > > > I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 > > drive. > > > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > > unload/clicking I've always

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:05:23 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ... ] > And 'hdparm -i /dev/sda' > fully rightly tells me the disk has (amongst other things): > " AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255)" And yes: it seems to help: I don't hear clicks ___ > users mailin

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:28:37 -0500 Fulko Hew wrote: > I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 > drive. > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > unload/clicking I've always used: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda If you're on Gnome: did you try "gnome

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-08 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > > unload/clicking I've always used: > > > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work;

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > unload/clicking I've always used: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > > unload/clicking I've always used: > > > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work;

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > unload/clicking I've always used: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it

Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 drive. To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head unload/clicking I've always used: hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; or at least it only works for a short while, and then