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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@free.fr>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Drives which perform frequent head unloads under Linux
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:52:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499380D2.5070306@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902031429.19457.fcartegnie@free.fr>

Francois Cartegnie wrote:
> MSI Megabook S425
> MK8025GAS (unload every 8/10sec)
> Workaround with APM to 254 (but doesn't disable totally).

>From the smartctl output,

  9 Power_On_Hours     ...      2791
193 Load_Cycle_Count   ...      100209

Which gives us 35.9 load cycles per hour which is kind of okay.  Is
this because you have been running the system with APM value adjusted?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03 13:29 Drives which perform frequent head unloads under Linux Francois Cartegnie
2009-02-12  1:52 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
     [not found]   ` <200902121414.46309.fcartegnie@free.fr>
2009-02-16  3:52     ` Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-28  8:11 James Brown
2008-09-07  6:04 Omar A
2008-09-29  7:24 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-30 19:10 ` Tejun Heo

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