2008/7/6 Paulo Cavalcanti <promac@xxxxxxxxx>: > I am trying to fix the Load_Cycle_Count > bug that is increasing at a very fast pace each day > on my laptop running F8. Suddenly, I realized that apparently the > version of pm-utils for F9 has a kook to deal with it: > > 99hd-apm-restore.hook and > /etc/pm-utils-hd-apm-restore.conf > > > Why was not this ported to F8? > > The problem, as I understand, is quiet serious, > and can kill the drive in one or two years. Model Family: Western Digital Scorpio family Device Model: WDC WD600VE-11KWT0 Firmware Version: 01.03K01 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 357 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 199 199 140 Pre-fail Always - 8 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 4414 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 199 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 192 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 065 065 000 Old_age Always - 406672 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 110 077 000 Old_age Always - 33 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 1 F-cking great. I don't think this drive is even a year old, and it's up to 400000 already! And has reallocated sectors? This is a plain, un-tweaked F9 on an eMachines m6805, which is run entirely off AC since the battery is no good. Shouldn't we do something about this? It would be easy enough to automatically detect a rapidly increasing Load_Cycle_Count and alert the user. Or just fix it automagically. I just put '/sbin/hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda' into my rc.local to control the damage. I shouldn't have to do this. No finger pointing, the plain fact is Fedora should Just Work, no matter what retarded things the BIOS vendor or HD manufacturer does. We really do need some kind of thing set up to monitor SMART and alert the user via notification-daemon. I already had to replace the drive in this thing because the previous one got toasted due to a failed CPU heatsink roasting the whole system. It sure would have been nice to get a "Warning! Your hard drive appears to be overheating!" alert. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
