Follow up All: I have never heard any hard drive ticking on my laptop.
Merton: Yes, Gutsy Gibbon is prone to this bug. You can check whether your settings are sane by comparing several outputs of sudo "smartctl -a /dev/<your hdd device here>", especially the Load_Cycle_Count increase rate. Try to run the command now and an hour or two later. Johnny Jelinek IV: "sudo laptop_mode status" -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
