[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-29 Thread Nick B.
What is your test case? Are you sure this is the same bug? On Friday, August 28, 2015 01:21:14 AM Aaahh Ahh wrote: Back at it in Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to pm-utils in Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-29 Thread Nick B.
What is your test case? Are you sure this is the same bug? On Friday, August 28, 2015 01:21:14 AM Aaahh Ahh wrote: Back at it in Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-29 Thread ethanay
Maybe installing TLP is a workaround? http://askubuntu.com/questions/285434/is-there-a-power-saving- application-similar-to-jupiter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to pm-utils in Ubuntu.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-29 Thread ethanay
Maybe installing TLP is a workaround? http://askubuntu.com/questions/285434/is-there-a-power-saving- application-similar-to-jupiter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 Title: High

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-29 Thread ethanay
For me, it's that the OS leaves insane hardware mfr defaults of hdparm -B=128 in place even on AC power. I believe this was fixed in 12.04 but is back for some reason in 14.04 for me... Installing TLP changes to B=254 on AC and retains the B=128 on battery (with the addition of clustering hdd

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-29 Thread ethanay
For me, it's that the OS leaves insane hardware mfr defaults of hdparm -B=128 in place even on AC power. I believe this was fixed in 12.04 but is back for some reason in 14.04 for me... Installing TLP changes to B=254 on AC and retains the B=128 on battery (with the addition of clustering hdd

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-28 Thread Brian Visel
Right? This is just sad. On Aug 27, 2015 9:41 PM, Ryan Waldroop 59...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Seriously? That's how many years? Come on! On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Aaahh Ahh woohoomo...@gmail.com wrote: Back at it in Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-28 Thread Brian Visel
Right? This is just sad. On Aug 27, 2015 9:41 PM, Ryan Waldroop 59...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Seriously? That's how many years? Come on! On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Aaahh Ahh woohoomo...@gmail.com wrote: Back at it in Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-27 Thread Ryan Waldroop
Seriously? That's how many years? Come on! On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Aaahh Ahh woohoomo...@gmail.com wrote: Back at it in Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 Title: High frequency

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-27 Thread Ryan Waldroop
Seriously? That's how many years? Come on! On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Aaahh Ahh woohoomo...@gmail.com wrote: Back at it in Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 Title: High frequency

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-27 Thread Aaahh Ahh
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[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2015-08-27 Thread Aaahh Ahh
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[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2014-04-10 Thread Timothy R. Chavez
The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305705 ** No longer affects: somerville -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2014-04-10 Thread Timothy R. Chavez
The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305705 ** No longer affects: somerville -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2014-04-09 Thread Timothy R. Chavez
** Changed in: somerville Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: somerville Status: New = Fix Released ** No longer affects: dell -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to pm-utils in Ubuntu.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2014-04-09 Thread Timothy R. Chavez
** Changed in: somerville Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: somerville Status: New = Fix Released ** No longer affects: dell -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-04-04 Thread Santiago Roland
I gave to my wife a new Samsung N150 Plus Netbook last year. Last month the hard drive died but the warranty covered a new hard drive, so it was fine. Now with the new hard drive i was able to hear every 6 seconds that the heads are parking, and i tried many things and i cannot make it stop. Now i

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-04-04 Thread Santiago Roland
I forgot to say that the version of ubuntu is 11.10 oneiric and the drive has 660 power on hours. he 6 seconds interval between parks is when using battery -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-03-17 Thread Joonas Saarinen
But the head parking is part of the normal drive operation. So why avoid it? It's actually beneficial as it unloads the head, thus protecting the disk from shocks (and saving some power). Not a heavy operation like starting/stopping the disk. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-03-17 Thread Yves-Eric Martin
@JoonasSaarinen It is normal only if done not too frequently. Because otherwise, it can kill a drive. And that is not just theoretical, it can happen much more quickly than you may think: I had a drive with that issue, but very quiet so I did not notice. The result: the drive died in a

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-02-16 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
SolidSlash (solidslash): it might be that recent kernel tweaks for ACPI (and other power management) support may have triggered a fix for this issue. If that's true, any distribution with a recent enough linux kernel should be fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-02-05 Thread SolidSlash
Guys, I don't want to jinx it but... about 5 hours ago I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 2 on my laptop (WD2500BEVT hdd) and, without further configuring it (no changes to apm or anything like that) it WORKS. Just WORKS. The temperature stays at 45'C and the load_cycle_count didn't increase even by

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2012-02-05 Thread Brian Visel
(!) really? ..wow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 Title: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-10-15 Thread Загорія Сергій
It looks like WD BEVT-series was not mentioned here and the kernel.org is still down. I just noticed huge Load_Cycle_Count on the WD1600BEVT-80A23T0. It almost reached 300 000 when I stopped it (299 252 to be precise) with hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda -B 254 didn't help, it just _ignored_ it.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-09-09 Thread Yann
6 Month ago I upgraded a previous 2.5 laptop internal WD Sata 320GB 5400rpm HDD for another WD (scorpio black?) 750GB 7200rpm: cat /proc/scsi/scsi labels it as: WDC WD7500BPKT-0 Rev: 01.0 The 320GB one was responding to various hdparm -B VALUE values... with 254/255 shutting off

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-09-07 Thread hallgat
Ocassionaly frequent load-unload cycles happens under Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 usually when watching youtube. This happened from 10.04 and up on every ubuntu distro. 10.04 clearly tried to kill my hard drive, fortunately the never versions are less cruel :) As I know there still isn't a 100%

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-09-07 Thread CLI
I think the workaround for the problem is to install laptop-mode-tools and in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf change line: BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=1 to BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=254 This of course sets default disk APM to 254, but with laptop mode tools my WD Scorpio Blue 500GB stays pretty cool (about 43

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-09-07 Thread hallgat
I usually writehdparm -B 254 /dev/sda to the /etc/rc.local to set the APM 254 or 255, so if laptop-mode-tools only do the same unfortunately it won't be enough. For example my harddrive is Seagate ST9120822AS. If you check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695 it shows there is no

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-08-30 Thread SolidSlash
Unfortunately, the dirty fix of setting APM to 254 doesn't end this issue. My hard disk is WDC WD2500BEVT-75ZCT2 (Dell Studio 1555) and, on Ubuntu 11.04, it gets really hot on the default settings. (up to 50 C on idle and even 54 C when copy/pasting) The load_cycle_count doesn't seem to go up

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-06-10 Thread TheGhost
Same here on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue. Every 7-8 seconds the load_cycle_count increases. Additionally, ff I activate HDD spin down when running on battery in the power manager, I hear a clicking noise of my hdd every second. I can gurantee that this clicking sound is

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-05-14 Thread Grizzly
Not sure if it's related or simply common knowledge - the WD EcoGreen EARS Advanced Format drives unter natty still park their heads every eight seconds smartctl in rc.local does lower the Load_Cycle_Count but does not fully help. There is a linux version of wdidle3 that also did not help much

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Porter
I've been getting some of these LinkedIn spam invites lately, but how are they being sent to this bug's address? This is getting ridiculous. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-05-04 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 05/05/2011 09:12, Adam Porter wrote: I've been getting some of these LinkedIn spam invites lately, but how are they being sent to this bug's address? This is getting ridiculous. Probably from Gmail contact lists. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2011-02-14 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: laptop-mode-tools (Mandriva) Importance: Unknown = Critical -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 Title: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-10-18 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: laptop-mode-tools (Mandriva) Status: Invalid = Unknown -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-06-10 Thread shuang.z....@gmail.com
** Also affects: acpi-support Importance: Undecided Status: New -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-06-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Please don't open new tasks against random projects without explanation and actual reasons. Thanks! ** Changed in: acpi-support Status: New = Invalid -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-05-02 Thread Jimmy Merrild Krag
Just installed lucid. Still got lots of load cycling, even though I've turned stopping the hard drive off. Any (hopefully) helpful information I can post? -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-05-02 Thread Jimmy Merrild Krag
Oh yeah. Running Lucid 64 bit. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-04-21 Thread ceg
** Description changed: - This is not a support forum. Please do not use it as such (even though - it has been used as such already). + The kernel wiki gathers info about drives with too aggressive power saving defaults. A script called storage-fixup is also available. +

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2010-01-29 Thread scar
i have been living with this problem for years, never occurred to me it could be resolved through software. i have a sony vaio pcg-tr3a with hitachi HTC426040G9AT00 disk drive. i don't think it keeps track of the load cycle with a human readable number, but it is definitely increasing: $ date;

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-08-07 Thread killian_ro
The bug still exists in any ubuntu (9.04/9.10, x86) and I'm using a desktop computer with two WD6401AALS drives. Every minute, or every few minutes, four clicks occur. This is annoying to say the least, and if it will go on, I will simply walk away from linux. I have tried every solution

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-13 Thread ktulu77
Hi. I have a XPS M1530 and I have the strange HD clicks 1 or 2 times per minutes. I am on ubuntu 9.04 x64. I don't understand why this bug is marked as fixed. I don't understand what I have to do to fix this problem. The bug report is huge. What can I do to save my HDD and do not lost my data ?

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-13 Thread houstonbofh
ktulu77 wrote: Hi. I have a XPS M1530 and I have the strange HD clicks 1 or 2 times per minutes. I am on ubuntu 9.04 x64. I don't understand why this bug is marked as fixed. I don't understand what I have to do to fix this problem. The bug report is huge. What can I do to save my HDD

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-07 Thread ethanay
If the intention is to enable a apm setting of 128 when on battery, where is the rationale and evidence explaining how 1. it actually protects the hdd from shocks 2. it actually saves power 3. evidence (even anecdotal) of drives overheating otherwise my understanding and experience is that

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-07 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
On Jun 7, 2009 10:00 PM, ethanay ethan.y...@gmail.com wrote: If the intention is to enable a apm setting of 128 when on battery, where is the rationale and evidence explaining how 1. it actually protects the hdd from shocks 2. it actually saves power 3. evidence (even anecdotal) of drives

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package pm-utils - 1.1.2.4-1ubuntu8.1 --- pm-utils (1.1.2.4-1ubuntu8.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low * debian/95hdparm-apm: apply a default apm policy to all drives on resume/thaw, based on AC state, for consistency with the settings applied by

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Pitt
** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-06-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package pm-utils - 0.99.2-3ubuntu10.1 --- pm-utils (0.99.2-3ubuntu10.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low * debian/95hdparm-apm: apply a default apm policy to all drives on resume/thaw, based on AC state, for consistency with the settings applied by

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-05-14 Thread Xandros Pilosa
Concerning pm-utils 0.99.2-3ubuntu10.1 from Hardy-proposed : targeted behaviour achieved here. Hdparm -B 128 on battery and hdparm -B 254 on AC, also persistent after resuming from STR or hibernation and switching from bat. to AC and back. HP Pavilion tx1000 HD: FUJITSU MHY2120BH Ubuntu Hardy

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-04-25 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: laptop-mode-tools (Mandriva) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-04-15 Thread Rocko
This bug has very recently come back in Jaunty specifically when I resume without power attached and then attach the power cable. More importantly, issuing a sudo hdparm -B 254 doesn't fix it when it happens. I've opened bug #361680 for it since it seems to be otherwise fixed in Jaunty. -- High

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:18:43PM -, Nicolò Chieffo wrote: Well. I think that hdparm -B 128 is a too low value... This is the problem! I've set it to 200 and now I don't have an infinite number of head parking as before! Because setting it to 200 is defined to not permit spin-down. It

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-22 Thread Dennis Heinson
This bug is far from being fixed. I am using the latest -proposed packages in intrepid. Same behavior for me as for other reporters: When I boot up on AC power - no problems. When I go to battery, the issue appears and will STAY even when I reconnect AC power. I get around 10 load/unload cycles

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-22 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
Well. I think that hdparm -B 128 is a too low value... This is the problem! I've set it to 200 and now I don't have an infinite number of head parking as before! you have to edit the files named 90-hdparm.sh in the directories and replace 128 with 200 /etc/acpi/ac.d/ /etc/acpi/start.d/

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-22 Thread Matteo Collina
I really don't understand why there are still these kind of files under /etc/acpi while there is the the new infrastructure under /usr/lib/pm- utils/. These kind of problems should be adressed only in one place to keep the solution simple and maintainable. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-21 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
I've just installed a brand new kubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Latitude D630; after the first boot I did an upgrade (without upgrading to 8.10 though), and the clicking problem is NOT there, load cycle NEVER increased in hours... However, laptop mode is not enabled, so this was fixed somewhere else? --

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-21 Thread Babyshamble
An educated guess: No, what happened is that your laptop's HDD wasn't affected by the bug? -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-21 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
ehm... I gave it for granted: my laptop's HDD is affected by this bug, in fact, in previous versions of kubuntu I was using the ugly fix. (I started with 7.04 and then upgraded the system up to 8.04.) Then today, I decided to install 8.04 from scratch and the bug is not there anymore (of course,

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:52:42PM -, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: On battery the cycle counts is more than 100 per hour, is this reasonable? Is it reasonable: no, but I don't think we can fix the problem of frequent un-parking from any of the power management packages. -- Steve Langasek

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Accepted pm-utils into hardy-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed **

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
I'm on acpi-support 0.119 and pm-utils 1.2.2.4-0ubuntu2 When I'm on battery I hear very frequently the spin down noise. I bought my new laptop 1 month ago and the load cycle is 5180. Do you think I suffer this bug? Now I set up /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf using

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Bart Samwel
Nicolò Chieffo wrote: I'm on acpi-support 0.119 and pm-utils 1.2.2.4-0ubuntu2 When I'm on battery I hear very frequently the spin down noise. I bought my new laptop 1 month ago and the load cycle is 5180. Do you think I suffer this bug? Probably. But 5180 in one month is fine: that's about

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
Thanks for the information. Anyway I noticed that leaving for 15 minutes my laptop on battery (with 128 as -B configuration), the Load_Cycle raised of 15 (more or less). So I get one load cycle a minute (fortunately only on battery). Is this the same case of you? Why is my disk woken up once a

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Bart Samwel
Hi Nicolò, Nicolò Chieffo wrote: Thanks for the information. Anyway I noticed that leaving for 15 minutes my laptop on battery (with 128 as -B configuration), the Load_Cycle raised of 15 (more or less). So I get one load cycle a minute (fortunately only on battery). Is this the same case of

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
It's ok for me that my disk saves power while on battery, but I cannot understand why once the read head is unloaded, every minute it is loaded again. If the PC is idle who is causing the load cycle? There might be a process that every minute accesses the disk, which is not ok (in my opinion) --

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Bart Samwel
Nicolò Chieffo wrote: It's ok for me that my disk saves power while on battery, but I cannot understand why once the read head is unloaded, every minute it is loaded again. If the PC is idle who is causing the load cycle? There might be a process that every minute accesses the disk, which is

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Yung-Chin Oei
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Nicolò Chieffo 84ye...@gmail.com wrote: It's ok for me that my disk saves power while on battery, but I cannot understand why once the read head is unloaded, every minute it is loaded again. If the PC is idle who is causing the load cycle? There might be a

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
That's right, sorry. Yung-Chin thanks for the page. I will try to find out which is the process that accesses the disk. Bye -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-09 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package pm-utils - 1.2.2.4-0ubuntu2 --- pm-utils (1.2.2.4-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low * debian/95hdparm-apm: apply a default apm policy to all drives on resume/thaw, based on AC state, for consistency with the settings applied by acpi-support.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
pm-utils uploaded to hardy/intrepid. Martin, please review at your convenience. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu Intrepid) Importance: Undecided = Critical Assignee: (unassigned) = Steve Langasek (vorlon) Status: New = In Progress -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-30 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package acpi-support - 0.116 --- acpi-support (0.116) jaunty; urgency=low [ Jakob Unterwurzacher ] * Defensive quoting in 90-hdparm.sh, so that the script doesn't throw a syntax error when the battery state is undetermined. [ Steve Langasek ] *

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-29 Thread SirLancelot
After latest acpi-support update bug looks like fixed on my 8.10 but with one exception. When I close my laptop screen disk start to load/unload cycles again. Is it a rule on laptop hard disk with closed screen? Is it Your idea to make something like protection of moving laptop with closed screen

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-29 Thread Bart Samwel
SirLancelot wrote: After latest acpi-support update bug looks like fixed on my 8.10 but with one exception. When I close my laptop screen disk start to load/unload cycles again. Is it a rule on laptop hard disk with closed screen? Is it Your idea to make something like protection of moving

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-28 Thread unggnu
Reducing the frequency of unparking is nearly impossible in Ubuntu, at least for the developers atm. It isn't enough to higher the DIRTY_RATIO like laptop-mode does or exit or disabling hal-polling. If apps like Firefox are used they poll very often. I personally got longer sleep times (nearly a

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-28 Thread Milan
Wouldn't it be the task of DeviceKit-disks to check for the drive's health and disable parking when it's happening too often or when the disk is near its end of life? I know it already does some SMART checks, so it could be easy to add this feature, and IMHO it's the place where things like that

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-28 Thread Mario Limonciello
** Changed in: dell Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-27 Thread Paganini
Hi Adam, That seems like a good idea to me. I have this problem on two thinkpads, a 600E and an X40. I gave the 600E to my sister a while back and it now runs XP, but it still has the clicking problem. It has a Hitachi drive similar to the one in my X40, but I don't recall the exact number.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-27 Thread Dennis Heinson
The Thinkpad X40 uses 1.8 hard drives that have clicking (and failing) issues all of themselves. Your issues are probably unrelated to the bug at hand. I am getting this issue with my new X200s Thinkpad using stock BIOS. It has a Seagate SATA ST91660827AS hard drive, firmware version: 3.CMF. The

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: acpi-support (Ubuntu Jaunty) Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel ACPI Team (ubuntu-kernel-acpi) = Steve Langasek (vorlon) -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
doesn't appear to be anything actionable here on linux/linux-meta, marking these tasks 'invalid'. ** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: New = Invalid ** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: New = Invalid ** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu Jaunty)

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-26 Thread Adam Porter
May I suggest that anyone who still has issues and comments on this bug should include this information: Laptop make and model BIOS version Hard disk make, model, and firmware revision (available from smartctl) Perhaps we can discover a pattern of manufacturers or models which handle certain

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread unggnu
Maybe it is/was better to poll the hard drive on effected systen every x seconds to prevent spinning down but still let use the ohter features of apm. Maybe the hardware vendors/ hard driver producers should be contacted how they deal with it under Windows. -- High frequency of load/unload

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread Dennis Heinson
Not solved for me either. Noticed by loud clicks. Laptop mode disabled. Seems to only appear once I suspend the computer and bring it back from suspend. Load cycle counter increase of about 60 in 15 minutes. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Would it be possible for some influential ubuntu developer to talk to manufacturer and ask what policy would they use on their drives? It seems to me that there are too many unsolved problems and this bug is the second most commented bug on launchpad. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread SirLancelot
Hi, This problem really exist on Ubuntu 8.10 and it's even worse than earlier because some packages was updated to fix this problem, some system files works different than earlier to fix this problem and effect of this fixes is that people simly couldn't solve clicking their hard drives because

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread Isaac Dupree
Steve Langasek: sure, there's a tradeoff... but with sufficient knowledge, perhaps we could make it less bad. Suppose the hard-drive is specced to 60 load-cycles. With smartctl we can measure the current number of load-cycles. Suppose there have already been 70 load- cycles: wouldn't

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread Michał Gołębiowski
@ Łukasz Graczyk: I attach unmodified version of my Intrepid /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf. ** Attachment added: Original Intrepid version of /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf file http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21624757/laptop-mode.conf -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread SirLancelot
Thanks Michał. For this moment only issue that really works for me in 8.10 is: 1/ sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true 2/ sudo gedit /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf http://wklej.org/id/44454/ Every other issues for me don't stop clicking even on AC. -- Pozdrawiam

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:13:26PM -, Isaac Dupree wrote: - hard drives seem to be quite uncooperative: there might not be *any* good way to tell one don't park any more often than X times an hour, In fact there isn't. Parking is handled by the drive itself according to the APM power

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-24 Thread enubuntu
the bug it's not solve! i have increment of cycle when my laptop work with battery please solve! thanks -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
enubuntu, It is intented that the hard drive be parked when running on battery, there's a trade-off between hard drive longevity and power usage. We do not consider this a bug and no fix is intended. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-24 Thread ®om
Steve Langasek, ok the hard drive can be parked when running on battery, but sometimes it is too much (particularly when you do nothing, you let the computer alone on battery). Last time, it parked about 400~500 times in 1 hour. That's why I reapplied the fix which always set hdparm to 254. --

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-24 Thread Paul Sladen
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, ®om wrote: Last time, it parked about 400~500 times in 1 hour. That would be once every 7-9 seconds. Is it even parking spinning down that qiuckly? -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-24 Thread Tobias Stegmann
Using the fix/updated acpi-support, my hdd gets very hot while idling. hddtemp says: $ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: TOSHIBA MK1637GSX: 55°C which is its maximum operating temperature. I don't want to think about what could happen if I make this drive doing sth. -- High frequency of

Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:05:20AM -, Cyberlion wrote: The bug solved, but the problem with the battery use is critical. And the HD is working in high temperature. There is nothing in this change that should cause battery use to increase. I think you should file a new bug report providing

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-20 Thread ®om
I had the Cycle Count increased by more than 800 since yesterday. I reapply this fix : cmd='hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda';sudo $cmd echo -e '#!/bin/sh\n'$cmd /tmp/hdfix sudo install /tmp/hdfix /etc/pm/power.d/00-hdparm.sh sudo install /tmp/hdfix /etc/pm/sleep.d/00-hdparm.sh to avoid the problem.

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-19 Thread ®om
The bug is mostly resolved, but there is still the problem sometimes when I let the laptop alone on battery (without doing anything). This morning I had the cycle count incremented by 30 in 2 minutes, and yesterday about 400 in (??? I don't know, but not a very long time). -- High frequency of

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