On 12/09/2017 09:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@xxxxxxx <mailto:roto@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:28:37 -0500
Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> I had to get a new laptop, and it came with a Toshiba MQ01ABD100
> drive.
>
> To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head
> unload/clicking I've always used:
>
> hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
If you're on Gnome: did you try "gnome-disks" utility? - or another
utility if you don't have Gnome? - I found that settings in Gnome
are not necessarily reflected in the ones below /etc. And maybe that's
true even vice-versa ...
And funny enough: I just found I don't seem to even have a
hdparm.conf. But the settings via "gnome-disks" tell me my (built-in)
head-clicker disk has APM set to 255 ....
Although I'm not a Gnome fan, I do have gnome-disks,
and again, no matter what I command it to do, my LoadCycleCount
still keeps going up.
And 'hdparm -i /dev/sda'
fully rightly tells me the disk has (amongst other things):
" AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255)"
>> And 'hdparm -i /dev/sda'
fully rightly tells me the disk has (amongst other things):
" AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255)"
> And yes: it seems to help: I don't hear clicks
I'm beginning to think that my drive just doesn't support a 'disable' value for APM.
So far my only workaround has been a shell loop that touches a file I don't care about.
I wonder if Western Digital infected the drive model with its infamous "idle3 timer" when it took over the Toshiba product line. There's an "idle3-tools" package that can stop that timer on WD drives. Not sure what the risk might be in using that tool on your Toshiba drive.
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Do NOT delete it.
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