Hardrive clicking / Kernel issue or daemon ?

[vejmarie at numericable.fr]

killed and still there !

Jm

Selon Bob Chiodini <chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov>:

> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 22:41, vejmarie at 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...
>