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

[Thomas Glomann <mailinglists-WoYc4IhrKEiELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>]

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?
> Obviously this is not a solution, but if it helps, kernel 2.6 could have
> some other way of controlling the disk than 2.4.
>
Still it doesn't explain why that sound is gone when disabling the whole 
acpi-system.
> The noise disappears when my hdd is under heavy load.
> - Maybe you just cant here it then, or it actually disappears because it
> is no longer idle
>
well thats true. as long as the disk is Not idle, the noise is gone. But 
returns right after.

> Regards
> Mads

So any other ideas?


Thomas


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