Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > unload/clicking I've always used: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > > unload/clicking I've always used: > > > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work;

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2017, Fulko Hew sent: > To disable the Advanced Power Management and to stop the head > unload/clicking I've always used: > > hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; > or at least it only works for a short while, and then it

Trying to solve the click of death issue

2017-12-07 Thread Fulko Hew
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 But on this machine/drive, it doesn't seem to work; or at least it only works for a short while, and then

Re: multi-head config question

2017-12-07 Thread Andrew J. Caines
François, > I have a dual head configuration with an Nvidia graphic card, which > perfectly works. but the monitors are standard ones (LG, resolution: > 1280x1024) and I would like to add a monitor for treating my photos > with darktable. Have you considered replacing the two small monitors wit