[Bug 394826] Re: HDD unusual high temperature and activity in Ubuntu Jaunty

[Elena09]

You see, that is why I switched backed to Windows. Linux is great but it
sucks!!






--- On Sun, 3/28/10, Mosab <mosabama at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Mosab <mosabama at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Bug 394826] Re: HDD unusual high temperature and activity in Ubuntu Jaunty
To: emailstudenti at yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 6:01 PM

I think this problem is about the western Digital Hard Drives. I searched every single website every post about this but there is no solution. I always use a cooling pad under the laptop for the temp to stay at the range of (40 - 44) C. !!
if I dont use a cooling pad it would hit the 60's.

I checked HD activity ... I didn't find any process writing to HD .. its completely idle. 
I used every single LINUX distro to find a way out ... but NOTHING ... its not about ubuntu. its about linux and Western Digital.

I use ubuntu 10.04 now ... and still. its really the time for some one
to act on this ... its really getting serious and annoying.

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HDD unusual high temperature and activity in Ubuntu Jaunty
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Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
My hard disk temperature is pretty high (above 45 Celsius degrees) even if I just read an article  without any other activity. Also, I can hear the noise of the hard disk permanently, at every 3 or 4 seconds it is moving. I have a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V6545 laptop with Ubuntu 9.04. 

So: iotop -o (after previously installed iotop) gives me, for a fraction
of a second, commands like: gnome power management, kjournald, pidgin
and one or two more. But each dissapeared very quickly. The Command
column is empty now, for a long time has been empty.

The temperature (sudo hddtemp /dev/sda) is 48 Celsius degrees now. I
remarked (repeating it) that the temperature starts decreasing after I
unplugg the AC adapter so that the laptop is running on battery only.
But it was 58 Celsius degree, with Pidgin running only.

The annoying click of the hard disk can be heard at each 3 or 4 seconds.

The hard disk is WD3200BEVT. Its specification may be found at 
   http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2670&p_created=#jumper. 

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