On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:54:09 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, Celejar wrote: > > Prompted by another thread on this list, I decided to check my drive's > > Load_Cycle_Count, and it seems that my drive is living on borrowed time: > > > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 031 031 000 Old_age Always > > - 697557 > > > > Searching the web indicates that a laptop drive is rated at most for > > about 600,000 cycles, so ... > > > > A few questions: > > > > 1) Why would it be so high? > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking > > > 2) What should I do to attempt to preserve whatever life it has left? > > hdparm -B 254/255? Anything else? > > You need to issue that hdparm every time the box had any reason to change > power policy to be sure it stuck. So make sure to reissue it when waking > up, and when AC power is connected/disconnected. Thanks. Any ideas about why the load cycle count is so high and increases so fast? I thought even -B 128 is a pretty standard value. And would you recommend 254 or 255? As to where to put the hdparm invocations, I suppose that writing an "OnResume nn hdparm ..." directive in hibernate.conf will take care of issuing it on wakeup, and setting all *_HD_POWERMGMT=254 in laptop-mode.conf will take care of the AC power connect / disconnect cases? Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130602215850.3f72d2322b6f378304fd6...@gmail.com
