Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Hi, I own a toshiba m400 and I already had to replace a disk in less > than one year (luckily, it was covered by warranty). I noticed that > Load_Cycle_Count was indeed increasing. Using hdparm -B 255 fixes it, > but also 254 seems to fix it (and I guess it is better to have some > power management than none at all?). > > I am not subscribed to the list so if you need more information just ask > me. I followed instructions at > > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues#How_to_determine_whether_a_machine_has_this_problem I just updated the page. Can you please read the updated part (which is in bold) and post how much the load cycle count increases per hour without any 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