Confirmed on WD Scorpio Blue 1TB (WD10JPVT) drive that came with my newly-purchased Dell Inspiron 15R 5520 laptop, with:
# smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep ^193 I probably should've compared Load Cycle Count increase compared to Windows 7 (Dual booting with Linux Mint Debian Edition + UP5), but seeing how I accumulated about 3200 Load Cycles in a few tens of hours use which was predominately on AC power, I decided to disable it completely on the drive for now, by: # apt-get install idle3-tools # idle3ctl -d /dev/sda # poweroff (restart won't do. must power cycle drive for firmware change to take effect) # idle3ctl -g /dev/sda Idle3 timer is disabled -- # smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-3-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD10JPVT-75A1YT0 Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxx LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 602770494 Firmware Version: 01.01A01 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon Sep 17 21:49:17 2012 EET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969165 Title: hdparm: excessive Load_Cycle_Count with some WD "Intelli-Park" HDDs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/969165/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
