Re: high pitch noise with kernel 2.6 and ACPI (Dell Inspiron 8200)

[Jason Straight <jason-7Pts9v9A/dAFAfPL0dH0GeTW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wednesday February 18 2004 14:17, Thomas Glomann wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 14:32, Mads Paulin wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > funny you mention it, I thought I was going crazy.
> >
> > I experienced the same thing, and discovered it to be the hard drive.
> >
> > Try to spind the drive down using hdparm and see if that helps.
>
> nope, putting the drive to sleep doesn't do the trick. the sound remains.
> Moreover I don't see how this "solution" was meant to work? Does the sound
> reappear when you wake up your disk or does it keep silent after a nice
> "onetime" sleep?

I think it was meant to be an attempt to see if it was the HD itself making 
the noise somehow.


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