I can confirm this on the up-to-date Maverick. Let me quote myself from a quite similar bug report.
I'm experiencing similar behavior on my up-to-date Maverick installation. I suppose it is because of the aggressive default APM / AAM setting ( =254 ) which does a fine job on the load_cycle_count rising issue but obviously makes the HDD run really hot. FYI, on Windows 7 I have set APM = 231 and AAM = 128 and the hdd doesn't get hot ( about 41 C comparing to 50 C on Ubuntu with APM = 254 ) and surprisingly there's NO load_cycle_count rising problem. The disk simply doesn't click at all. While on Ubuntu, if I lower the APM and AAM values ( 231 & 128 - just like on Windows ), the hdd gets indeed cooler but there comes the load_cycle_count issue - it raises about 1 point every minute. Now this is quite dangerous. So, until the described behavior is fixed, I'm staying on Windows. I don't want to brick my HDD. I'm using Dell Studio 1555 with WDC WD2500BEVT-75ZCT2 hard drive. -- Excessive heat versus excessive parkings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399978 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
