Comment 2 for bug 68565

I repeat: shutting down with WindowsXP is clean and doesn't produce any
sounds, the harddrive spins down silently.

This means that using Ubuntu, the power is cut before the head is
automatically parked so the drive has to perform emergency head park
(which emits this noise, and wears the drive more quickly).

Can someone who knows the shutdown procedure of Edgy Eft please give
some help?

Thanks
Bye
Marco

DominikBodi ha scritto:
> That's normally not a problem, as modern hard disks park the head
> automatically when the power is cut. Have you experienced data
> corruption or similar symptoms, at all? Do the filesystems on the drive
> get checked (fsck) regularly during bootup? I'd suggest installing
> smartmontools in order to find out if there's anything wrong with the
> disk.
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