On 2013-06-02 11:04:07 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > 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 ...
On my current laptop I have: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 2115831 This is much higher! I haven't noticed any sign of failure yet. On another laptop, I had: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 3759880 before a fatal failure. Perhaps you can ignore what you have found on the web. > 2) What should I do to attempt to preserve whatever life it has left? > hdparm -B 254/255? Anything else? On my current laptop, I had to set # VL: apm_battery was 127 by default, but the -S option (spindown_time) # doesn't seem to work, and since the drive is used very often, let's # forbid spin-down by setting apm_battery to 128 (any value between 128 # and 254 should be OK). See: # http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684241 # http://askubuntu.com/questions/137544/how-to-change-harddrive-spindown-time apm_battery = 128 in /etc/hdparm.conf several months ago. Since then, bug 684241 has been fixed, so that this may no longer be necessary. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130602153647.gc17...@xvii.vinc17.org
