Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:25:09 -0500 | From | Stephen Clark <> | Subject | Re: Laptop's HDD |
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: > > > >>The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads >>that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it >>can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD dying >>even earlier for this problem [2] >> >> > > I use: > ># hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda > >to get rid of the problem with an ATA disk where I do not care that much >about power consumption. I do not know what the equivalent for a SATA >disk would be, but chances are it will be easier to track it down with the >reference above. > > Maciej >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > My laptop harddrive is only a little over a year old and it has a cycle count of 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 021 021 000 Old_age Always - 795931
it was going up a few counts everytime I ran the smartctl -A command. It quit incrementing after I did the hdparm -B 255 command.
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