Carlos Bessa wrote: > Hi, > I have installed a new hard drive to my laptop and noticed i have this > problem. Didn't have any problem with the previous/original drive. > > Laptop: Targa Traveller 826T (clone of MSI M635 - MS1029) > Hard Drive: Western Digital 2.5" WD1600BEVE > OS: OpenSuSE 11.0 64bit > > Western Digital has an utility on their website to resolve this, but > it does nothing as it notifies that the hard drive already has the > latest firmware: > http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_sid=undefined&p_lva=undefined&p_li=undefined&p_faqid=1414&p_created=1138984716&p_sp=undefined > > I have noticed this problem for a while now, and have used this > information and laptop-mode-tools to work around it: > http://en.opensuse.org/Reduce_laptop_APM_loadcycle > But i have only found this webpage a few days ago. > The value 254 seems to work fine. How much does the load_cycle_count increase per hour without the adjustment? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
