On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Towers <larch42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found > that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite > significantly. This may be a freak and I would love to know whether > there really is something behind it, but when I used -B 200 the > temperature increase was clearly smaller, but the load cycle count did > not increase!!! Is this actually at all possible? Does the -B option > do something other than only affecting head loading? Does anybody > know? > > In looking through the storage-fixup package data I see that always -B > 254 or -B 255 is set, so obviously there is no sign of other, possibly > more optimal values there. > That sounds like an interesting concern, you might want to ask upstream (= storage-fixup maintainers) about it :)
