erythrocyte, I guess it still doesn't work in Intrepid, at least on my
Dell Inspiron 1520 with a <a
href="http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c7de03cf785c6110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale
=en-US">Seagate Momentus 5400.4</a> it didn't.
I did some testing, maybe this helps for debugging. I tried changing the
bios settings for HDD Acoustic Mode to all three options ("bypass",
"quiet", "performance"), but it didn't seem to make any difference, the
cycle count kept increasing. I've tried to suspend my session, but after
resuming the clicking was still present. After hdparm -B 254, the
clicking stopped for good :)
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