Hello, On 05/09/2010 06:19 PM, Pierre Pallier wrote: > My system : > EeePC 1005HA, > Hitachi HTS543216L9SA00, > Mandriva 2010.0 > I counted exactly 117 load/unload cycles in one hour. > > Setting APM Level to 254 solved the problem. When I first started storage-fixup. I thought it would be a temporary thing and vendors would pretty soon stop shipping broken devices. Well, that doesn't seem to be the case and storage-fixup is really not the solution. It will always cover only small fraction of actual problem cases while unnecessarily increasing power consumption on many configurations. It's too small and too big a solution at the same time. More succintly, it sucks. :-) I've been trying to contact vendors and am talking with at least one of them but if vendors are okay with the current situation I don't think there is much we can do. It's a problem between hardware vendors and their customers and I don't think it's wise to continue providing this half solution which is doing more harm by masking the real problem. Thanks for reporting and I'll add your entry to storage-fixup and also update ATA wikipage in several weeks. -- 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
