Confirmed on my desktop with Kubuntu Gutsy. 20 or so seconds after the KDE desktop has appeared and there is still a lot of hard disk activity, it starts clicking like crazy, but without slowing down the system considerably, and after 2 or 3 minutes enters the well-known state where clicking occures every 5 seconds. After 15-20 minutes, clicking becomes infrequent and in most cases stops a few minutes later. Load cycle count of the disk is not exceptionally high (I checked that of course), but the seek and read error rates are insane.
I have a Hitachi hard disk too. As you might know, these are the successors to the infamous IBM "Deathstar" series which had a very bad disk-destroying clicking problem that could be fixed (mostly too late) by a firmware update. So I wonder whether Hitachi HD's need special treatment in terms of power management to not wear out too quickly. I'm not affected on other distributions BTW and the ugly -B 254 fix doesn't do anything for me. -- hard disk being accessed every 4 sec. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17878 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
