Tzvetan Mikov wrote: > It is naive to expect that this can be fixed by the community. Problems > of this kind can only be fixed by a coordinated entity with resources: > someone that can purchase different hard drives, possibly laptops, and > is able to put some pressure on the manufacturers for information, and > to invest significant time in testing and development. Clearly Dell is > in the best position to do this. > > This bug entry has turned into a discussion forum, with the same things > repeated over and over. I don't think there is anything useful to a > developer aimed at fixing this beyond first few posts. The community has > failed, so to speak, but as I said, this is not a problem amenable to a > "community solution". > > I strongly suspect that if somebody (a company) was seriously working on > a fix, they wouldn't post here, possibly until the fix was ready. > > My suggestion to everybody is to stop posting ideas (even if they are > good, in actuality they are not helping) and evidence about their own > system. It is useless !! Nobody is going to read all the messages to > gather bits of evidence. Please, post only if you are a developer > actively working on a fix, or if a developer asks for specific tests to > be done by somebody with the problem (admittedly the latter is a very > long shot). > > I got this DiskCheckup tool for Windows , which reads SMART data from the Hard Disk.After a while , I was quite surprised to find the Parking rate to be at about 2-3 per minute.I don't think Windows does anything to aleter the settings either - or maybe , the controls are all messed up ?
-- 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 the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
