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 unsual, normally when parking the hdd's head. Deactivation of spin down setting helps, but load_cycle increases still every 7 seconds. Based on this, it seems that there are still problems with the HDD management. -- 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 go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/acpi-support/+bug/59695/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
