harddrive clicking and loadcycles increase fast in ubuntu 10.4 beta 1

[Tex Bandrew]

first of im a linux newbie, so i may explain this wrong.

I think this may be the same bug that has been marked as fixed about a year ago (bug 59695). The problem occurs when the harddrive is idle. I can hear it click periodically (15 - 30 sec in between) and the SMART load/unload cycle count rise by about 10-15 every minute (its on 241019 now, so i suspect its still not resolved in Ubuntu 9.10, which i was running before)

My harddrive is a Samsung MP0804H and i have disabled harddrive spindown in the power management.

I have never and do not experience this problem in Windows XP, so i find it unlikely its a (pending) hardware failure.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updated Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!