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. > -- default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
