Hi all, While investigating the interesting arguments concerning bug #59695, I noted that a lot of the argument centres around the assumption that Windows bypasses BIOS settings and configures drive access with so called "sane" values.
Well I thought I'd check this out and although I'm still in doubt as to the validity of whether increased time spent in the hard disk landing zone is significant in reducing lifespan - I can confirm one myth as debunked: Windows Vista does not alter the load unload cycle parameters. I've put up a quick piece on my blog (http://blog.lynxworks.eu/) but suffice to say that after disabling in Ubuntu, after 15 minutes there is no increase in load unload cycles. Reboot into Windows and after 15 minutes reboot to Ubuntu and surprisingly the cycles have increased by ten. Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
