Re: Hardrive clicking / Kernel issue or daemon ?

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 22:41, vejmarie(a)numericable.fr wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I just have installed successfully FC2 on my brand new laptop ( Compaq R3140US )
>  based on AMD64 mobile chip. I have manage to run it with the nvidia driver (
>  without GLX support in hardware unfortunatly , the GLX library provided seems
>  to work only with Xfree86 stack and not Xorg ), I face a strange issue right
>  now with my hard drive.
>  
>  It is clicking let's say every 10 to 30 s like if the head of the hardrive where
>  put in an off position and restarted or like if my disk was going to die. I
>  though that my hard drive was a Dead on arrival one and re installed windows to
>  check ( sorry for the debugging way ), and everything works fine so it seems to
>  be a Linux issue, tried with redHat AS 3 and no issue, so seems to be FC 2
>  related. 
Just a SWAG, could it be smartd?  Try killing smartd and see if the
clicking continues.

Bob...