Bug 115759

Summary: Disk light flickers during idle on eMachines 6260 (AMD Athlon 64 on MSI 7093)
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Simon Dales <novell>
Component: OtherAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Preview 4   
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Description Simon Dales 2005-09-07 23:09:57 UTC 
Disk light flicks on every second or so (flick,flick,sleep) when the machine is 
idle. A similar flick, but different pattern occurs in XP. If you put your head 
to the case you can hear the disk arm move every twenty seconds.

It occurs in 64 bit suse 9.3 and 10beta4 and XP, but not 32 bit.

a) what's going on?
b) does it matter? Probably stops the disk sleeping, and wears the arm out.
Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-09-08 08:58:53 UTC 
*** Bug 115758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Martin Lasarsch 2005-09-08 09:01:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115758 ***