Thomas Hobbes schrieb:
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
1. Configure and use laptop_mode. With it you can minimize the number
disk accesses while you are on battery and prevent the disk from
spinning down when you are not.
2. Create regular backups. With a laptop, load cycles are just one of
many threats to your HDD.
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