I had made a post here - http://www.botcyb.org/2008/12/linux-hard-disk-issue-excessive.html on the issue of excessive load cycle count. You may have a look at it if you wish.
On 29/12/2008, Alexey Borzenkov <sna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hanno, I don't really remember, but I think back when I was > investigating problems with my Samsung drive I found that iotop didn't > show all the interesting values and was patching it to be more precise. > Also, please be aware, that querying smart will always unpark drive > heads, because smart values (I think) have to be read from special > sectors on your drive. The same goes for ANY hard drive temperature > monitoring (because they ALL have to query smart to get drive > temperature), so remove hddtemp if you have it installed. > > If you want your drive to stay parked longer try enabling laptop-mode > (look at /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf for details and don't forget > to set ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true in /etc/default/acpi-support). What you > must be interested in is *_MAX_LOST_WORK_SECONDS, but it will work on AC > only when you have ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_AC=1. You might, just like me, > find it a lot better for your drive to stay spinned down than to have it > constantly working with disabled APM. > > -- > High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 NB: Kindly send mails as "text/plain". -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
