From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1: harddrive which does crazy unloading Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:05:19 +0900 Message-ID: <4B96013F.1050904@kernel.org> References: <201002081933.10144.suse-linux@ml082.pinguin.uni.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:59137 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237Ab0CIIFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:05:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201002081933.10144.suse-linux@ml082.pinguin.uni.cc> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Al Bogner Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, Sorry about very late reply. On 02/09/2010 03:33 AM, Al Bogner wrote: > I append info of an 1.5 TB WD Caviar green drive with a lot of start/stop > cycles. I would like to mention, that I have 4 1 TB Caviar green (WD10EADS) > which work fine! > > The e-SATA drive is used with this machine: > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_b214fce2-b5b5-4a32-ba7e-cf9de6d55757 > but has problems with other machines too. > > I use Openesuse 11.1 > Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default > FANTEC Fanbox FB-35US2 (probably JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller) > storage-fixup-0.2-25.3 is installed, but not especially configured > > If you need more info let me know. How fast does it increase? ie. counts / hour. Thanks. -- tejun