Noiseless shutdown + Kubuntu 7.04

[Magyari, Balázs]

Thank you for your answer, it made me understand that nothing can be
done on my part. It also strengthened my idea that it is a good
decision for me to go back to the previous version. :-)
Regards,
Balázs

2007/5/1, martijn <martijn.es at gmail.com>:
> Hey,
> Probably you have a normal ATA drive in your hardware that used to be called
> hda. Due to a newer kernel all hard drives are controlled with one driver
> that is not yet fully suitable for normal ATA drives (your disc is called sda
> in that case) The driver SHOULD set everything automatically, but there are a
> few problems for a lot of people.
>
> Acoustic management is one of these settings that may not be set in the best
> way. Until now there is no cure for this, we have to wait for a kernel
> update.
>
> I hope this explained  it a bit.
> Bye!
>
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 12:01:48 Magyari, Balázs wrote:
> > No idea? I also tried Ubuntu 7.04 and it makes the same quite loud and
> > awful voice when shutting down. So the problem might be in the base
> > system, eg. in the kernel. I went back to 6.10 then. :-)
> >
> > 2007/4/24, Magyari, Balázs <tripatos at gmail.com>:
> > > Hello,
> > > I installed a Kubuntu 7.04 (no upgrade) and as I already have
> > > experienced with Herd and Beta Releases, the shutdown is noisy for me,
> > > as if the winchester (or sg. else) is still working when shutting
> > > down. That's the same with Hibernating, but not with Suspending, then
> > > the laptop turn-off is noiseless.
> > > It's not just that it's not "trendy" for a modern OS to behave like
> > > this but I'm also afraid of destroying my hardware and it's also quite
> > > disturbing for me. I use K/Ubuntu since 5.04 and I tried many other
> > > linux distributions too but never experienced such symptoms. (neither
> > > with Kubuntu Edgy or with Windows)
> > > As this may not be a bug I would like to know if there is some way to
> > > tweak my system in order to make a completely noiseless (and maybe
> > > more secure) shutdown for my laptop. Maybe I should modify my shutdown
> > > scripts, or...? If you have any suggestions, please send an e-mail!
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Balázs Magyari
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