From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: storage-fixup, info for WDC WD5000AAVS on ASUS M3A78PRO Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:11:09 +0900 Message-ID: <4B96029D.8020708@kernel.org> References: <201002090924.58093.roman.fietze@telemotive.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:52626 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569Ab0CIILO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:11:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201002090924.58093.roman.fietze@telemotive.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Roman Fietze Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, On 02/09/2010 05:24 PM, Roman Fietze wrote: > # smartctl -a -v 193,loadunload /dev/sda | egrep 'Device Model| > Load_Cycle_Count' > Device Model: WDC WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1637105/0 > > and rising every minute. 1637105 - that's impressive. The model is rated for only 300k cycles. > hdparm -B does not work at all, tried it with 254, 255 or no number > at all. I suppose there isn't much to do other than wishing for longevity. Long live the drive! Thanks. -- tejun