That link is broken. In my case I'm fairly sure the drive is not broken - the noise only occurs when the laptop is running on batteries, hence I think this is head park/unpark that occurs in power-save mode.
I'll soon be installing 9.10, so I can confirm the problem still exists then. -- 8.10 AMD64 Clean Install - Internal clicking noise https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292460 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs