• ThinkpadT21
    • PIII 850MHz, 512 Meg RAM, 30GigHD, DVDROM+CD-RW

Configuration of my IBM ThinkpadT21

I've been playing with my Linux thinkpad setup for a while, and am running the 2.6 kernel. The biggest issue for me has been a constant spin up of the hard-drive even though I am leaving the computer idle (or just browsing the web). I thought I'd disabled all the daemons that hit the disk, but with Andrew Morton's help I found that gdnc was regularly writing to disk... that gone, the hard-drive spins down and stays that way...

my setup is....

  • Debian unstable
  • ext3
  • metalog
  • anacron

To this end I have started to look at making changes to the PowerTweak Linux project.

Diary

  • Jan2004 - running 2.6.1 with laptop-mode-7
    • HD wakes up every 2-5 mins (even though i am using the default 10min setting) need to find out what is causing it again
    • Total running time: 685446s
    • State changed 9413 times
    • Time in sleep state: 546306s (79.70%)
    • Time in active state: 139140s (20.30%)
    • Time in unknown state: 0s (0.00%)
  • Feburary2004
    • the 30 Gig drive started dying after a few hours.. so i got a shiney new 5400rpm 40Gig one :), its much quieter
  • March2004
    • the screen was going dark, the battery was dodgey, had noise problems, and my waranty was about to expire
      • so I got them to come in and fix it wink (the only orginal parts are the case, keyboard, processor; they replaced everything else under waranty)
      • so I renewed my waranty - I love IBM on site service!

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