Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:21:52 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
>
>> Okay, okay... I know comparisons can -sometimes- be counterproductive
>> but most of the time help a lot :-)
>
> Well. - No comparisons!
Pardon me... I couldn't resist O:-)
> Though w/ temperature it seems things got normal again - so no question
> here any more for now at least.
>
> But w/ the HDD head parking it is still an issue, currently it is:
>
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 080 080 000 Old_age Always
> - 204131
>
> and it grows about 1 time per 30 minutes.
JFYI (from my notebook):
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 049 049 000 Old_age Always - 20456
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 074 074 000 Old_age Always - 261161
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 37 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/52)
All that attributes are tagged as "old_age" not "pre-fail" which is soothing.
Note that the laptop has counted almost 2 years of "power on" (although
is indeed 4-5 years old but true is that is not always "on").
>> Well, no "black magic"... I was aware of the problem (maybe I read
>> about that behaviour in another mailing list or just noticed via RSS,
>> anyway, it was "old news" for me -it was noticeable in other distros,
>> BTW-).
>
> I was also reading about ubuntu's issue on this how it was spinning down
> HDDs exceedingly often thus reducing its lives...
There was a Debian bug report tracking this problem:
acpi-support: excessively load cycles some hard drives
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448673
I would carefully read the comments in there before making any change.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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