@ Steve Langasek I tried it. I wrote a script that checks the Load_Cycle_Count number and writes with the actual date to the log file. I executed this script periodically (and between those executions I did nothing), and this is the output:
### AC ON 09.01.11 05:24:39 116203 ### AC OFF 09.01.11 05:25:17 116208 It worried me a lot, as in 30 seconds it raised by 5! I thought it's not fixed. Though later... 09.01.11 05:26:41 116216 09.01.11 05:27:22 116217 09.01.11 05:28:49 116217 09.01.11 05:29:31 116217 09.01.11 05:36:09 116217 09.01.11 05:48:03 116217 09.01.11 05:56:22 116217 ### AC ON 09.01.11 05:56:36 116217 09.01.11 05:57:22 116217 09.01.11 06:06:02 116217 ### AC OFF 09.01.11 06:07:07 116217 09.01.11 06:15:37 116217 reboot... ### AC ON 09.01.11 06:26:56 116219 ### AC OFF 09.01.11 06:27:20 116219 09.01.11 06:42:20 116219 As You can see, later even after 25 (sic!) minutes of not doing nothing the counter didn't raise even once. So there are 2 questions: 1) Why the counter raised so quickly at the first time I unplugged AC power? Is it normal? 2) Shouldn't my HDD park at least once per 15 minutes? I thought that a fix should make parking less often, but not to switch it off completely... Or maybe I'm wrong and it's ok? Waiting for Your opinions... -- 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