On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Alessandro Gallo <[email protected]> wrote: > The HDD of the system makes a weird clicking noise when powered off > with shutdown or halt using ACPI. I experienced this problem on three > different machines (two laptops and one desktop). It's like the Hard > Disk heads are not parked before the power is cut off. Same problem > on FreeBSD but not on NetBSD, where some parking is made. I fear this > problem could potentially shorten the life of my HDDs. Thanks.
This is a known issue. Unfortunately, it seems some systems don't like to turn the hard drive back on for the next boot.
