On 27.10.2007 21:29, Alexander Boström wrote: > fre 2007-10-26 klockan 17:26 +0200 skrev Thorsten Leemhuis: > >> Additional note: the hard driver does strange noise (sounds a bit like >> parking and unparking the heads maybe) now and then (sometimes every ten >> seconds or so, sometimes a lot less). > > Oooohh... Yeah, this old Thinkpad T21 makes irritating noises like that > too. And the Load_Cycle_Count increases every time it does that. (Disk > model is IBM-DJSA-232.) Thanks for the explanation. Hmmm -- Yesterday and today I tried to disable the Advanced Power Management feature by using # sudo /sbin/hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda The strange noises I often heard every few seconds when the systems was idle went away. *Uneducated guess*: Dell (my notebook vendor) in the BIOS enabled the Power Management feature (good) with a short idle-timeout (debatable if that's good or bad (¹)) and expects that the OS set a more sane value once the system is up (which we don't do, which I'd say would be the correct way if those nosies wouldn't make me nervous). CU knurd (¹) -- might be a good way to save power until the OS is up and running to take care of it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
