On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Martin Toft <m...@martintoft.dk> wrote: > Inspired by http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/2127254 and > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 I've > looked into the hard drive load cycle count on my 5-6 months old Asus > Eee PC1000H laptop. The launchpad link recommends that a disk has no > more than ~15 load cycles per hour, which indicates that my disk might > be in danger:
> Does anyone have some suggestions for how to tune this? I've looked in > the FAQ, smartctl(8) and atactl(8). The apmset option of atactl looks > promising, but the power management levels are not explained in enough > detail to be useful (IMHO). rodin:~> grep ata /etc/rc.local atactl sd0 apmdisable