Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-10-16 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno Mon, 12 May 2008 23:14:33 +0200 Milan Bouchet-Valat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: But it has not fixed all issues. And it appears to cause some HD to heat, which can possibly be dangerous. But this may just be an illusion. This is not an illusion: my laptop hangs after a couple of

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-10-16 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: I still see a solution: the hdparm At best that seems like a workaround. I'm pretty sure I saw Matthew Garrett say that the underlying cause of the high parking rate is that Linux's disk IO pattern is quite different to that of Windows, and that we ought to be able to

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-05-14 kello 02:11 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan kirjoitti: Could a list of vendors who make crappy hard drives (ie ones with this issue) be made so we all can avoid them? I can say my Western Digitals don't have the issue, though they do have a tendency to die anyway (bad sectors and dead

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-14 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 07:58 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: please read the article again... relatime might help as part of a workaround but the article makes pretty clear that there is no sane way you can solve it on the software side in a nonintrusive way, its a hardware vendor setting and

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit : hi, Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime please see

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 22:42 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit : hi, Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High frequency