Comments on: Laptop hard drive clicking in Hardy

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:31:36 +0000

Hi, tried your fix and it was great but after a restart all went back the way it was before. That awful clicking came back and had to go into terminal and type hdparm …. again. By the way, i did the local_settings thingy

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:51:19 +0000

If it is then I haven’t noticed it yet. It may have carried over my settings from 8.04 though so I can’t be sure.

By: Doru

Doru — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:30:33 +0000

Do you know if this is still present in 8.10 ?

By: MockY

MockY — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:38:23 +0000

This bug is present in an install via Wubi as well. However, fstab is listing the boot disk as /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk instead of /dev/xxx. When trying to use /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk in th hdparm command, it fails to locate it.

Any ideas?

By: pete

pete — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:38:36 +0000

one note:
i had to switch the command:
sudo ln -s local_settings /etc/rc2.d/S99local_settings
to:
sudo ln -s ../init.d/local_settings /etc/rc2.d/S99local_settings

otherwise the clicking continued upon a restart.

By: pete

pete — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:46:54 +0000

thanks!

few minutes now and no clicks. still crossing my fingers but it seems to be a good fix