There are a lot of people reporting a fast increasing Load_Cycle_Count. Consider for example this data (from comments on my blog by ch4rm) :
October 28th : 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0012 057 057 000 Old_age Always - 437604 October 31th : 448651 is my Load_Cycle_Count number for today. That’s 4015 more than yesterday see : http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/#comment-31370 http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/#comment-31749 -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs