2 Sep
2010
2 Sep
'10
2:54 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 15:54, Rafael Beraldo <rafaelluisberaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
I added hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda to /etc/rc.local, but I don't know if it is a good solution either. Anyway, as Isaac Dupree said, unfortunatelly there is no intermediate setting, then it is best not to have anoying and (I think) dangerous clicks.
It is dangerous. I got a new HDD killed in 3 weeks, the clicks happened more and more often and after a while, the driver started to produce read errors. I thought that the drive was faulty and got it replaced in warranty. After the replacement drive also produced the clicks I found out about the whole hdparm thing, set the value to 254 and the drive is working fine for almost 3 years now. -- ijanos