[email protected] (Mayuresh) writes:
>In a couple of laptops in last 2 years I faced this problem (irrespective
>of OS):
>The disk makes a recurrent noise, I guess, of the head being parked nearly
>every 1 minute, unless of course it's busy with some disk heavy activity
>like compilation.
If the load cycle count increases, then the hard drive is probably
configured for power saving. This is a bad choice for a disk with
read-write mounted filesystems. NetBSD doesn't configure the drive
by itself, but the BIOS may.
If the load cycle does not increase, maybe the start/stop count or
the number of calibration retries does?
The NetBSD atactl command can read SMART data, you don't need smartmontools
just for that.
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