From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Load/Unload issue: HP NX6325 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:46:20 +0900 Message-ID: <48E2E47C.7020506@kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:35186 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751126AbYJACrt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:47:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Wolf Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Christian Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > pls see attached files for more info on this load/unload issue on the HP NX6325. > > hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda does "fix" it, the drive also does not overheat > from this value - in opposite to some other drives. 255 does not help, > in opposite as some fellow user states in the Ubuntu notebook wiki, on > this drive. > > As far as I can tell from now nearly 1 yr with this parameter, it does > not harm the drive but helps to stop unloading the heads. > > More about the issue on the HP NX6325 on my blog: > http://vale.homelinux.net/wordpress/2007/10/24/potential-risk-for-your-nx6325s-harddrive/ > > In case you are employed by HP, could you please consider me as your > future notebook Linux evangelist? ;-) > > Greetings from Munich, > > Christian > > > > added -- tejun