Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-26 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:59:08PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied at 3781, though it is still under observation. Good deal!

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied at 3781, though it is still under observation.

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-24 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied at 3781, though it is still under observation. When I wrote the OP I

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Mayuresh
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:16:49PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few minutes it changed only to 3635. That still seems like a rather high load_cycle_count. And if it is

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:39:03PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: What does it indicate. It was 3755 when I started the system today and growing over a few minutes. I got what it indicates. It's scary... I noticed utilities to fix this problem in the wd drives. I checked my drive, it is: ata1.00:

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +, Curt wrote: Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop. It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm. dmesg reports this. I searched, but could not even find whether this has head parking problem and if so why the disk is quiet on

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-23, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +, Curt wrote: Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop. It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm. dmesg reports this. I searched, but could not even find whether this has head

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-20, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: Laptop spec: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-15-r200-Notebook-PC-series/7486447/model/7748035/document/c04576750/ I had a head parking/unparking/Load_Cycle_Count problem on my desktop machine (Western Digital Green Drive--known issue in

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: hdparm -B /dev/sda /dev/sda: APM_level = 128 man hdparm -B Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low value means aggressive power management and a high value means better

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-22 Thread Mayuresh
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 04:01:38PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few minutes it changed only to 3635. Install smartmontools. I also think think you should set up regular drive

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few minutes it changed only to 3635. That still seems like a rather high load_cycle_count. And if it is increasing every minute then I

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: I am a new Debian user. Welcome! :-) On a freshly purchased laptop I installed Debian jessie and I am facing a constant recurring disk noise. Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? You mention a laptop and at one time there was a big problem with disk drives

Recurring disk activity

2015-06-20 Thread Mayuresh
I am a new Debian user. On a freshly purchased laptop I installed Debian jessie and I am facing a constant recurring disk noise. Have searched the forums on various lists and tried out suggested solutions. Following is the relevant information: Laptop spec:

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-20 Thread Mayuresh
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 04:01:38PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: On a freshly purchased laptop I installed Debian jessie and I am facing a constant recurring disk noise. Further to the details in previous posts, I have nearly switched off all services except ssh and networking now. # service