On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 17:36:47 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2013-06-02 11:04:07 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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 ... > > On my current laptop I have: > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always > - 2115831 > > This is much higher! I haven't noticed any sign of failure yet. > > On another laptop, I had: > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always > - 3759880 > > before a fatal failure. > > Perhaps you can ignore what you have found on the web. Thanks. Perhaps, but some of what I read was by Henrique, who seems to be a hardware / disk / Thinkpad expert, as well as a DD, so I take his stuff pretty seriously. http://linux-thinkpad.10952.n7.nabble.com/T420s-HD-life-and-Load-Cycle-counter-td5617.html > > 2) What should I do to attempt to preserve whatever life it has left? > > hdparm -B 254/255? Anything else? > > On my current laptop, I had to set > > # VL: apm_battery was 127 by default, but the -S option (spindown_time) > # doesn't seem to work, and since the drive is used very often, let's > # forbid spin-down by setting apm_battery to 128 (any value between 128 > # and 254 should be OK). See: > # http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684241 > # > http://askubuntu.com/questions/137544/how-to-change-harddrive-spindown-time > apm_battery = 128 > > in /etc/hdparm.conf several months ago. Since then, bug 684241 has > been fixed, so that this may no longer be necessary. Thanks again. 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/20130602220334.f1e98e010a62415b450cd...@gmail.com
