Hard disk clicking when idle

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#1

This seems to be a common problem for Hitachi hdd (see Problem with hard drive clicking - ThinkWiki). I don’t know how to disable that setting, the suggestions are for other distros and I couldn’t find one for openSUSE.

#2

I just tried laptop-mode, it seems to provide a good answer. Also powertop. But…is that all?

#3

Hi
Check the driver power management and drive load cycle count;

http://old-en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management


smartctl -a /dev/sda |grep Load_Cycle_Count

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop
up 1 day 8:42, 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.11
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

#4

Thank you!