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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:27:49 -0400
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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, Stephen.Clark@seclark.us, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, 7eggert@gmx.de, emisca <emisca.ml@gmail.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> but I have an increasing seek error rate as well. I got the ST disk
> because thinkwiki suggested it.
> 

Apparently Seagate has their own definition of seek error rate.
Large numbers are normal, or at least very common.

Now I wonder if they have their own way of doing retract count...