On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:31 +0000, DGMcCloud wrote: > What would be a good solution is to have a disk head parking time (the > idle time needed for the disk heads to park) which is configurable. > However, at least on my Hitachi drive, this can't be done. Setting APM > to 191 uses the same timing as 128, and 192 switches head parking off > completely. There is absolutely no way to control the timing. Another > option would be to configure Linux in such a way that it accesses the > disk at a much higher rate OR a much lower rate. Either option would be > sufficient to solve the problem. The only difference is that with a > higher disk access rate, the heads will not park that often (but will > park when you're doing nothing at all).
I would *love* to see something like this. Personally, I'm not too worried about losing the head protection "feature"...I don't really see how having the head parked for 1 second out of 10 will really help that much. I, too, would like to park the heads only after it being idle for say 10 seconds. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
