Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-04-02 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:51, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, tom arnall wrote: well, I did 'hdprm -B 255' and let the thing sit overnight. The next day the number of load cycles was ~300 as best I can remember. Did the same thing with same results for 'hdprm -B

Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 20:19:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. below is ouput of: date ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 9 ~/logfile

Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-16 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 16 March 2008 06:01, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 20:19:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. below is ouput of: date ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 ~/logfile sudo

Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, tom arnall wrote: well, i did 'hdprm -B 255' and let the thing sit overnight. the next day the number of load cycles was ~300 as best i can remember. did the same thing with same results for 'hdprm -B 254'. You must make sure something else is not resetting it (like a

system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-15 Thread tom arnall
my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. below is ouput of: date ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 9 ~/logfile

system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-08 Thread tom arnall
my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. below is ouput of: date ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 9 ~/logfile