I have a Sony VAIO VGN-T2XP (ULV processor) and I guess my BIOS is broken because the Load_Cycle_Count is so extremely huge and grows so quickly that it can't be true. Maybe other are also broken.
These is the proof of concept: 1. performed an apt-get dist-upgrade in order to be sure that I have the latest gutsy packages (but not proposed). 2. rebooted and selected recovery mode on the grub menu, so the system is as idle as possible 3. mount -t debugfs none_debug /sys/kernel/debug 4. date ; smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 1690304612755 5. blktrace /dev/sda 6. ^C after 5 minutes 7. date ; smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 1690338167189 8. That makes 33554434 cycles in about 5 minutes!!! Doesn't my VAIO deserve a prize for such a brave behaviour? ;-) BTW, I bought it 2 years and a half ago and I don't use it very often. HTH -- 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
