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#1 2008-05-22 13:38:25
- alexertech
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"Tick" noise every 5 or 10 seconds on my laptop HD, ¿why?
Hi everybody.
This issue its following me from when i have installed gentoo on the old drive.
The thing is, i used to have a 40GB Toshiba ATA-100 HD, on my Aspire 3050, and some times when the fan goes quiet in the ondemand governor i can hear very clear a "TICK" noise coming from the HD.
This issue happens even on my new 120GB WD Scorpio drive ATA-100 (totally new), where the only distro that i have installed its ARCH, and there is the "tick" noise again. I tried Fedora and also there is.
But, in M$Win, there is no noise, and the drive its even more quiet.
I'm a bit worried about because i have critical data here, so, i don't wanna wake up some day, and find my HD Dead.
Somebody with the same issue ?
What could be ?
If you need more info about the system, just tell me. 
See ya and thank you in advance! 
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#2 2008-05-22 13:55:27
- Allan
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Re: "Tick" noise every 5 or 10 seconds on my laptop HD, ¿why?
Solution is found here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39258
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#3 2008-05-22 23:14:07
- alexertech
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Re: "Tick" noise every 5 or 10 seconds on my laptop HD, ¿why?
Right. Thanks ... i didint think that in that post where the solution to my problem... I apply the workaround of laptop-mode, and it seems to work...
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# Should laptop mode tools control the hard drive power management settings?
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CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=1Any suggestions are welcome... i'm reading a lot about the issue, so if i see something useful, i will let you know...
Thanks!
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#4 2008-05-23 01:16:01
- Allan
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Re: "Tick" noise every 5 or 10 seconds on my laptop HD, ¿why?
I just put this in my /etc/rc.local file
# hard drive scaling
hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda >> /dev/nullFrom memory, the laptop-mode-tools work around does the same thing.
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#5 2008-05-23 01:27:09
- alexertech
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Re: "Tick" noise every 5 or 10 seconds on my laptop HD, ¿why?
So i can take out the laptop-mode-tools if i use hdparm ?
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#6 2008-05-23 02:37:12
- Allan
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Re: "Tick" noise every 5 or 10 seconds on my laptop HD, ¿why?
Yes, they essentially do the same thing. I think laptop-mode-tools is a bit more dynamic (as in it adjusts the values based on usage, power status etc) but I'm not 100% sure on that.
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