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; sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle_Count Fri Jan 29 00:43:37 MST 2010 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 011 011 000 Old_age Always - 9055335103588 s...@kovu:~$ date; sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle_Count Fri Jan 29 00:47:17 MST 2010 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 011 011 000 Old_age Always - 9055351880805 $ date; sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle_Count Fri Jan 29 00:56:07 MST 2010 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 011 011 000 Old_age Always - 9055368658022 $ date; sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle_Count Fri Jan 29 00:56:32 MST 2010 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 011 011 000 Old_age Always - 9055385435239 i am using ubuntu 9.04 with acpi-support 0.121, and i have enabled laptop mode in /etc/default/acpi-support it doesn't seem to have helped, but i understand it is only supposed to help when on battery power? this laptop remains stationary and on AC power, so i would like to also hear about a solution for this scenario. -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
