There's a way to stop the Load_Cycle_Count growing by installing
ataidle from the portscollection and disabling APM with ataidle -P 0 0
0. The Load_Cycle_Count is constant after that. This reduces
battery-runtime but that's much better than destroying your harddisk.
Best greetings
Thomas
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Hi,
there are some reports that Ubuntu GNU/Linux 7.10 "kills harddisks":
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/
I can confirm this behaviour for FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE 200710 i386 and
smartmontools-5.37_2 from the portscollecti
