On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :) Anyone happen to know how often the storage-fixup rules are updated? My Eee drive isn't listed (mine does NOT have an SSD) so I'm not sure what the hdparm params should be.
