2008/7/8 Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx>: > Are you sure that you know what the value means? My drive reports this: Yes I've monitored it, it increments every few seconds when the system is idle. If I do something to keep the disk active, it does not increment. If I set the power save level up to 254, it stops incrementing. I'm certain the value is accurate. > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 071 071 000 Old_age > Always - 2990488599305 > > I do not believe that the value is exactly the number of load cycles that my > drive already had. Google the interwebs for more information. Some drives seem to report impossibly high, thus completely bogus numbers. It would appear yours is one of them. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list