On lun, 2008-09-29 at 17:44 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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? The problem is that now I don't know what is the default (I also found no way to read the -B setting with hdparm). I tried with hdparm -B 128 which seems adviced by many for laptops, and I get 130 cycles per hour. Vincenzo Ciancia -- 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
