Suddenly Narcoleptic Hard Drive

[Matt Patterson]

If you are a dual boot user I would see if the same behavior happens in 
windows (or boot up a live cd). The laptop mode disabling mentioned 
previously is a good idea as well. I say to try a different os quickly 
because I actually had a drive whos power supply came loose and it was 
restarting itself regularly as a result. It didnt last too long as you 
can guess, so make sure you check it out. If the OS is doing the 
restarting then there shouldnt be a problem, its just annoying and 
eliminating laptop mode or modifying its settings should fix things.

Matt



Jack Jackson wrote:

> Hi,
> Suddenly, my hard drive seems to want to sleep every few minutes. I 
> can be working on the machine and I'll, for example, click on a link 
> or a new piece of mail, and I'll hear the drive spin up (it's a 
> notebook) and see the HDD activity light, and it's clear the drive had 
> gone into some kind of snooze.
>
> This is brand new behavior. And the usual caveats - I didn't change 
> anything or update the kernel or image - apply.
>
> Any ideas how I can
>
> a. Get some useful metrics to track this activity
> b. Troubleshoot?
>
> JJ
>