Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:22:29 -0400 | From | Robert Krawitz <> | Subject | Re: Another one for fixup-storage |
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:16:24 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Robert Krawitz wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:22:51 +0900 > From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > > Robert Krawitz wrote: > > This is for a Dell Inspiron E1705/9400. I'm using a non-OEM disk (a > > Hitachi 320 GB drive). > > > > Note that matching on "MP061" doesn't work -- it needs to be "MP061*" > > due to the way dmidecode seems to return the data (with a bunch of > > spaces after the tag). Hence I've attached the data rather than merely > > > > I've only had this thing a month or so and already had over 70,000 > > unload cycles. Ick. > > Can you please attach the result of "smartctl -a" output? > > # smartctl -a /dev/sda > smartctl 5.39 2008-05-08 21:56 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-8 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
Thanks. And how much does the load cycle count increase per hour without any adustment?
I didn't count it for a full hour (I put the workaround in place over a month ago); it looked like it was incrementing something between 2 and 5 times per minute, as I recall.
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