From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754092AbYI3OSG (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:18:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752966AbYI3ORz (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:17:55 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:50085 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752941AbYI3ORy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:17:54 -0400 Message-ID: <48E234B8.4050009@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:16:24 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080720) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Krawitz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Another one for fixup-storage References: <4897809E.8070902@alum.mit.edu> <48E0824B.4010408@kernel.org> <200809291141.m8TBfxiU004269@dsl092-065-009.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <200809291141.m8TBfxiU004269@dsl092-065-009.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Krawitz wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:22:51 +0900 > From: Tejun Heo > > Robert Krawitz wrote: > > This is for a Dell Inspiron E1705/9400. I'm using a non-OEM disk (a > > Hitachi 320 GB drive). > > > > Note that matching on "MP061" doesn't work -- it needs to be "MP061*" > > due to the way dmidecode seems to return the data (with a bunch of > > spaces after the tag). Hence I've attached the data rather than merely > > > > I've only had this thing a month or so and already had over 70,000 > > unload cycles. Ick. > > Can you please attach the result of "smartctl -a" output? > > # smartctl -a /dev/sda > smartctl 5.39 2008-05-08 21:56 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-8 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Thanks. And how much does the load cycle count increase per hour without any adustment? -- tejun