Re: Disk heads won't park
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
>> This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
>
> Start_Stop_Count should indeed tell you how many times the disk spun
> up&down.
>
> OTOH Load_Cycle_Count indicates something which IIUC has nothing to do
> with disk spin, but with something like head parking.
Like i said, There were no changes in Start_Stop_Count or Load_Cycle_Count. The
value that stands out (to me) is Head_Flying_Hours, which means "Time
spent during the positioning of the drive head".
The noise i hear is the heads parking, not the disk spinning.
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