Nick B. schrieb: > What about cases where the 254 setting causes the hard drive to become > very warm? On my laptop an hdparm value of 254 causes the hard drive to > reach temperatures of around 50°C which is too high. Disabling laptop- > mode allows the drive to operate in its normal range somewhere between > 41-45. But then it suffers from the unload cycles. Is there another > solution to this?
I have exactly the same problem. You might try other values close to 254 and monitor your load cycles. Maybe you're lucky and the drive firmware has a setting where the time until the heads are parked is moderately high so parking will occur less often. Otherwise I would complain to the drive manufacturer or laptop manufacturer. (I think one can expect a hard drive to be operable with constant but little disk activity without wearing off way before the expected life span...) Regards, Hanno -- 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
