dan.thoughts » hdd http://blog.sosedoff.com Web-development, PHP, Ruby, Sinatra, Merb, Rails, MySQL, SQLite, Web Services. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:54:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 HDD click problem in Ubuntu http://blog.sosedoff.com/2009/01/30/hdd-click-problem-in-ubuntu/ http://blog.sosedoff.com/2009/01/30/hdd-click-problem-in-ubuntu/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:02:45 +0000 Dan Sosedoff http://blog.sosedoff.com/?p=47 Since i completely switched to ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop i got very weird “click” sounds from hard drive. I thought it was just a simple “sleep” mode, parking heads or something pretty simple. But that sound began to appear so often (sometimes 2 clicks in 1 secons)  that i cant even get sleep with that disturbing sound.. But that sound appeared only in ubuntu and never heard it in other os. Wtf  is going on? After googling for a short time i figured out what was the problem – Advanced Power Management in Ubuntu.

Solution was very simple. Just turn off this power management:

sudo hdparm -B255 /dev/sda

If you have more than one drive – the same operation but with different device. That`s it.

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