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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rapidly increasing Load_Cycle_Count
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:42:35 +0200
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On 07/02/2010 07:15 PM, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> As requested by Tejun here
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545024#c63 , I report a
> problem encountered on a DELL Latitude E6410 with a Seagate hard drive
> (see attachments for details).
> 
> The Load_Cycle_Count increased significantly in the first two days of
> life of the machine reaching the value of 1183, which, according to my
> estimates corresponds to about 60 cycles per hour. The problems was
> fixed by setting a higher value of the power management parameter:
> 
> hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda

Noted in ata-wiki known issues page and added to storage-fixup.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun