Re: regarding frequent head unload problem

["Paul Rolland" <rol@witbe.net>]

Hello,

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:00:17 +0200
Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)  <rol@witbe.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:02:33 +0900
> Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm writing to everyone who reported to me or linux-ide about frequent
> > head unload problem and the report is not yet committed to
> > storage-fixup.conf.

> 
> I also have the following :
> [root@tux ~]# while : ; do smartctl --all /dev/sda | grep ^193; sleep 60;
> done 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 075 075 000  Old_age Always  - 257584 
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 075 075 000  Old_age Always  - 257590 
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 075 075 000  Old_age Always  - 257593
> 

Please note that hdparm -B255 /dev/sda also fixes the issue... Now added
to rc.local ;)

Regards,
Paul

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