linux-kernel - Re: WD doesn`t use disks with Linux - was Re: Re:Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux

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Message-ID: <482D5547.4000208@draigBrady.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 10:35:03 +0100
From:	Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
To:	Roland <devzero@....de>
CC:	tvrtko@...ulin.net, pernegger@...il.com, snitzer@...il.com,
	jengelh@...putergmbh.de, zorglub_olsen@...mail.com,
	renatoyamane@...dic.com.br, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WD doesn`t use disks with Linux - was Re: Re:Western Digital
 GreenPower drives and Linux

I wrote a few notes about load cycles here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/hard_disk_reliability/

It's bad that the WD GreenPower doesn't support
`hdparm -B` setting its parameters, but I found I
didn't need to tweak these anyway.

I just got the distro to write less often to the drive
with the (rel)atime mount options. With that I got an
acceptable load cycle rate.

Pádraig.

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