Hi Alexey, Alexey Borzenkov 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.
My drive parks just fine with hddtemp. And smart doesn't necessarily require storage on a special sector -- the drive could also be using some sort of nvram. So your mileage may vary, it may all depend on the drive. Cheers, Bart -- 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
