Francois Cartegnie wrote: > Le jeudi 12 février 2009, vous avez écrit : >> Francois Cartegnie wrote: >>> MSI Megabook S425 >>> MK8025GAS (unload every 8/10sec) >>> Workaround with APM to 254 (but doesn't disable totally). >> From the smartctl output, >> >> 9 Power_On_Hours ... 2791 >> 193 Load_Cycle_Count ... 100209 >> >> Which gives us 35.9 load cycles per hour which is kind of okay. Is >> this because you have been running the system with APM value adjusted? > > The system has been fixed early, so It's not revealant. > The head clicks 3-4 seconds after the disk activity, which means that if you > are using ext3 with default commit time, you have a cycle every 5-6 seconds. Alright, added and pushed out. 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