Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:
> I am having frequent head unloads on a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with a
> Seagate HDD. As explained on the Wiki[1] I am attaching for you the
> output of:
> 
>    * hdparm -I
>    * dmidecode
>    * smartctl --all (in addition)
> 
> I hope this information is useful for you.
> 
> I am currently using a workaround to prevent the unloads as described
> here - http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management .
> 
> [1]
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues#Drives_which_perform_frequent_head_unloads_under_Linux

Can you please test the attached storage-fixup.conf?  If you're on suse,
just do "zypper install storage-fixup" and replace
/etc/storage-fixup.conf with the attached file, remove the manual
workaround and see whether the problem is gone.

Thanks.

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tejun