> > At this rate the disk would reach it's design limit for load/unload cycles > in around 80 days. Design *minimum* for load/unload cycles is reportedly 600K cycles, that would give me over 7.5 years of 24/7 operation, which I can live with in cheap high capacity drives that have only 5 years of warranty anyway. Support wouldn't say if the behavior is considered normal, though ... Will set the timeout to 25sec using the DOS kludge and see what happens ... doubt it will help much, though. I'd much rather like to know what causes the drives to load heads again so soon after the unload. With the usage pattern of these drives they should stay unloaded most of the time here. Being able to set the timeout online via hdparm would be nice, too :) C. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
