hard drive clicking

[Bill Johnson]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> Apologies if this post seems redundant.  I recently read some posts
> about 
> > people having problems with the hard drive clicking under Fedora Core 1.  
> > I am experiencing that same issue, and wanted to re-read the thread, but 
> > cannot find it. I've searched the archives to no avail.  So, can anybody 
>      1. give me the solution?  
> 
> try This..
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg00629.html
> 
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Silly me.  I was searching for "hard drive" rather than "hardrive".  No 
wonder I didn't get a hit.

Thanks for the link.  That was the thread I remembered, but unfortunately 
it never reached any conclusion or solution.  

I have tried the solutions related to getting more ventilation to the 
laptop (propping it up a couple inches, etc.), but the clicking continues 
(albeit a little less frequently when I tried those things).  One thing 
I'd like to understand better is acpi.  How do I use acpi to control the 
fan?  Is it possible that I need to do something there?  I don't hear the 
fan running on this laptop like I would expect.

Thanks for the help!

Bill Johnson