Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 11 2007 17:07, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
>When I reboot my notebook, it powers off and powers back on.
>On poweroff a loud snapping noise seems to be coming from the
>hard drive. Today I noticed there is no "shutdown: hda" on
>the console when I reboot. Whne I do a normal poweroff the
>message is displayed and there is no noise. Should the IDE
>code be changed so it always shuts down the drive?

What sort of notebook? What sort of harddisk?
Is it as loud as `hdparm -y /dev/hdX"?
Try `smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hdX | grep -i unload` too.


Jan
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