Hi, there are some reports that Ubuntu GNU/Linux 7.10 "kills harddrive": http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/
I can confirm this behaviour for FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE 200710 i386 and Gentoo Linux 2007.0 i386. My Load_Cycle_Count is increasing about 1 cycle per minute. There's the possibility to disable APM for one's harddisk to stop that behaviour. You can do: hdparm -B 255 /dev/yourharddisk That stops the Load_Cycle_Count's growth but reduces one's battery runtime. Is there a better way to weaken the possibility of killing one's harddrives? Best greetings Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
