linux-kernel - Re: Laptop's HDD

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Message-ID: <473888C2.8070709@rtr.ca>
Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:09:22 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Alberto Gonzalez <info@...bu.es>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Laptop's HDD

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
> 
>> The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads 
>> that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it 
>> can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda")  . There are reports of HDD dying 
>> even earlier for this problem [2]
> 
>  I use:
> 
> # hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda
> 
> to get rid of the problem with an ATA disk where I do not care that much 
> about power consumption.  I do not know what the equivalent for a SATA 
> disk would be, but chances are it will be easier to track it down with the 
> reference above.
..

The exact same command works with SATA drives.

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