On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:13:26PM -0000, Isaac Dupree wrote: > - hard drives seem to be quite uncooperative: there might not be *any* > good way to tell one "don't park any more often than X times an hour",
In fact there isn't. Parking is handled by the drive itself according to the APM power management settings; we don't really have a good interface to control parking more finely than that. The only other approach to reducing the number of load cycles would be to reduce the frequency with which Ubuntu requires *un*parking the drive; that's worth investigating, but is going to take a while to get to the bottom of and is probably not something we would change in existing releases via SRU unless the fixes were obvious and straightforward. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- 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
