I switched to single user mode, using 'sudo telinit 1' and the clicking continued.
While in single user mode, I ran smartctl -a /dev/sda -d ata repeatedly, logging the results. If I ran it immediately after each click, the clicking happened every 6 seconds. If I ran it 3 seconds after each click, the clicking slowed down and happened only every 9 seconds. If I ran it every 2 seconds, the clicking stopped altogether. I've attached a gzipped tar file containing the script I used to run the command after each click, and the output files it created. I don't see anything obviously different between when it was clicking and when it wasn't in those logfiles. See "00-readme.txt" in the archive for a description of which logfiles are which (although you can work that out from the timestamps in the filenames). ** Attachment added: "gzipped tar file of multiple smartctl outputs while ticking" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10224557/smart.tgz -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
