I see this problem on the hard drive in my laptop as well. Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 (Travelstar 5K160)
Under Ubuntu it increments the load_cycle_count at least every 9s or so. I booted into Vista to attempt to see if it had the problem under it as well but I couldn't come up with anything conclusive since Vista would NEVER stop reading/writing my drive even though I was doing nothing on the machine. It was still reading/writing at 0.5-1MB/s according to resource monitor an hour after it had booted. I never actually use Vista (other than for firmware updates) so I may try doing a clean install using the information from http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=120228/ , and then see if I can get it to stop constantly writing to my drive with none of the vendor supplied bloatware installed. -- 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
