On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 08:04:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> <unrelated>
> Readers: if any of you have a ST[123]000DM001 drive running the CC24
> firmware, and can confirm high head parking counts (SMART attribute
> 193), and are willing to upgrade your drive firmware to the latest then
> see if the LCC increments stop (or at least settle down to normal
> levels), I'd love to hear from you. I have been socially boycotting
> these models of drives because of that idiotic firmware design choice
> for quite some time now (not to mention the parking on those drives
> is audibly loud in a normal living room), and if the F/W actually
> inhibits the excessive parking then I have some drives to consider
> upgrading. :-)
> </unrelated>
I dunno about firmware, but you can smack 'em with a big hammer...
/etc/rc.local:
for i in 0 1; do
/sbin/camcontrol cmd ada${i} -a "EF 85 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"
done
x-ref:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-November/052997.html
LCC was somewhere in the upper 400's (I wanna say 480-some?) a year
and change ago when I dropped that in. It's 506/493 now on the two
drives.
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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