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. Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
