fix for flawed hdparm in Lucid

[Pjotr123]

When your hard disk suffers from ceaseless clicking (parking and unparking), you can stop that by changing the settings of hdparm in Lucid. By adding some lines to /etc/hdparm.conf. But you can't use the "command line code" anymore in 10.04; you have to use a different code. As follows:

In the terminal:

gksudo gedit /etc/hdparm.conf

Add this piece of code:

/dev/sda {
    apm = 254
    apm_battery = 254
}

Then reboot. The endless clicking should have ceased.

There's a bug report on Launchpad as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rm/+bug/568120

[Pjotr123]

I just improved the instruction in my previous message. With thanks to Jan Claeys from ubuntu-be.

[stchman]

When your hard disk suffers from ceaseless clicking (parking and unparking), you can stop that by changing the settings of hdparm in Lucid. By adding some lines to /etc/hdparm.conf. But you can't use the "command line code" anymore in 10.04; you have to use a different code. As follows:

In the terminal:

gksudo gedit /etc/hdparm.conf

Add this piece of code:

/dev/sda {
    apm = 254
    apm_battery = 254
}

Then reboot. The endless clicking should have ceased.

There's a bug report on Launchpad as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rm/+bug/568120

This worked for me. The Load_Cycle_Count is now under control.