Re: Dangerously high Load_Cycle_Count on my Thinkpad T61 Hitachi drive

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:54:09 -0300
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, Celejar wrote:
> > Prompted by another thread on this list, I decided to check my drive's
> > Load_Cycle_Count, and it seems that my drive is living on borrowed time:
> > 
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   031   031   000    Old_age   Always       -       697557
> > 
> > Searching the web indicates that a laptop drive is rated at most for
> > about 600,000 cycles, so ...
> > 
> > A few questions:
> > 
> > 1) Why would it be so high?
> 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
> 
> > 2) What should I do to attempt to preserve whatever life it has left?
> > hdparm -B 254/255? Anything else?
> 
> You need to issue that hdparm every time the box had any reason to change
> power policy to be sure it stuck.  So make sure to reissue it when waking
> up, and when AC power is connected/disconnected.

Thanks. Any ideas about why the load cycle count is so high and
increases so fast? I thought even -B 128 is a pretty standard value.
And would you recommend 254 or 255?

As to where to put the hdparm invocations, I suppose that writing an
"OnResume nn hdparm ..." directive in hibernate.conf will take care of
issuing it on wakeup, and setting all *_HD_POWERMGMT=254 in
laptop-mode.conf will take care of the AC power connect / disconnect
cases?

Celejar