Hard drive light on my laptop won't stop blinking

[rogue780]

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my MSI GX630 (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16834152073). Vanilla install and my hard drive light keeps flashing and won't stop. I sudo apt-get upgrade'd the system, restarted. It's keeps trashing.

I read an old thread about 7.10 where someone installed laptop-mode and that fixed the problem...but alas, it is no longer in the repository.

Nothing is overtaxing the CPU either. Here is part of the top output:


PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1749 root 20 0 60268 45m 15m S 7 1.5 3:22.73 Xorg
2372 shawn 20 0 59696 45m 15m S 3 1.5 1:27.85 compiz
9518 shawn 20 0 45768 13m 9.9m R 3 0.4 0:02.06 gnome-terminal
23159 shawn 20 0 58476 20m 12m S 2 0.7 1:07.38 xchat
885 messageb 20 0 3292 1652 760 S 2 0.1 2:12.94 dbus-daemon
2651 root 20 0 15660 3040 2432 S 2 0.1 2:42.99 udisks-daemon
2613 shawn 20 0 8104 3544 2576 S 1 0.1 2:00.66 gvfs-gdu-volume
2748 shawn 20 0 19272 7484 5740 S 1 0.2 1:23.41 gdu-notificatio
5081 shawn 20 0 341m 83m 27m S 1 2.8 2:44.32 firefox-bin
5605 shawn 20 0 35556 11m 8972 S 1 0.4 1:21.85 update-notifier
15573 root 18 -2 2544 976 344 S 1 0.0 1:11.39 udevd
1 root 20 0 2800 1624 1164 S 0 0.1 0:22.91 init
28235 shawn 20 0 2544 1232 904 R 0 0.0 0:00.99 top


Help!

[tgalati4]

Could be indexing going on. There are several databases that need to be created for a new install. Put a piece of electrical tape over the LED. It won't bother you so much.

[rogue780]

Put a piece of electrical tape over the LED. It won't bother you so much.

That's kind of a akin to telling someone not to hold their iphone 4 in their left hand...

I have ubuntu 10.04 installed on 3 other computers and I don't get this kind of hard drive activity...It's a problem that only affects my laptop and quite frankly it is shortening the life of my hard drive. It shouldn't have THAT much to index...it was a fresh install. All i've added was eclipse and the jdk.