Launchpad has imported 6 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391671.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-20T08:34:26+00:00 Andrey wrote: TOSHIBA Satellite L30-113 notebook. Intel Celeron 430M, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M. Fedora 8. == Increasing Load_Cycle_Count == [root@fedora ~]# smartctrl --all /dev/sda [...] Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series Device Model: HTS541060G9SA00 Serial Number: MPBCPAXMGMV6PM Firmware Version: MB3OC60R User Capacity: 60,011,642,880 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1 Local Time is: Tue Nov 20 18:03:50 2007 VLAT [...] [root@fedora ~]# smartctl --all /dev/sda|grep -i count 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 432 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 432 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 211 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 103707 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 but a hour ago Load_Cycle_Count was: 103698 == ReiserFS or ...? == Day ago I leave my notebook on 30 minutes, and when I came back I was heard that my HDD was buzzing! [noisy like the sound of a bee; doing something hard] I tried to do something, but Fedora don't respond.. even if I press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or Ctrl+Alt+Del.. I wait about 10 minutes.. I was forced to press and hold PowerOff button for 5 seconds for hard-shutdown.. When I turn on my laptop, I found something strange in /var/log/messages file: Nov 19 22:09:23 fedora yum: Installed: unrar - 3.7.8-1.lvn8.i386 Nov 19 22:43:34 fedora kernel: ReiserFS: sda6: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item Nov 19 22:43:34 fedora kernel: ReiserFS: sda6: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item And before this Load_Cycle_Cont was about 96###, and after - 102### ... Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi- support/+bug/59695/comments/211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-20T13:49:00+00:00 Andrey wrote: I think I found solution to stop increasing Load_Cycle_Count. ]# hdparm -I /dev/sda|grep Advan Advanced power management level: 128 (0x80) * Advanced Power Management feature set The solution: ]# hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled ]# hdparm -I /dev/sda|grep Advan Advanced power management level: 254 (0xfe) Advanced Power Management feature set Now Load_Cycle_Count stopped increasing! Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/212 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-20T16:20:03+00:00 Phil wrote: Reassigning this bug to the kernel component as it's a bug in that component. Read ya, Phil Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi- support/+bug/59695/comments/213 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-20T20:46:27+00:00 Chuck wrote: That value is set by the system BIOS at power-on; we never change it. (Some other distributions do, but not Fedora.) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/216 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-02-05T01:38:45+00:00 Eric wrote: Bug confirmed un a Toshiba Satellite A210-FS3 I coded the following script. Do not use without checking if the HD temperature is not going too high. Here is the script that you can activate through /etc/rc.d/rc.local : ============== #! /bin/bash #Utility that checks whether the APM level is at 254 if not, reset it there. SLEEP="120" while [ true ] ; do STATE=`hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "Advan" | sed "s/.* \([0-9][0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/"` ASTATE=`echo ${STATE:0:3}` if [[ $ASTATE != "254" ]] ; then hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda fi sleep ${SLEEP}s done ============== It is useful since each time it comes back from suspend or hibernate the value is set back at 128 so having such a script reset it back to 254 which prevents the Load_Cycle_Count problem as noted above. Hope this help. Eric Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/365 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-09-17T09:57:58+00:00 Dimitrios wrote: Dear all, may I request that you reopen this bug? On Fedora 17 I get the following on a 2 year used hdd: # smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep ^193 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 064 064 000 Old_age Always - 366975 My hard disk is a Hitachi HTS545025B9A300, and as seen in the datasheet at [1] the expected lifetime is 600K load cycles. So I argue that this *is* a bug for Fedora, and the proper fix would be to "smartctl -B 254" when on AC and "smartctl -B 128" when on battery. I think that's the fix implemented in Debian/Ubuntu, see [2]. [1] http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/products/Travelstar_5K500.B [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448673 If you are interested I can come up with a patch, it seems pretty simple, as I think the proper place for running hdparm would be "/etc/pm/{power,sleep}.d/, at least to take care of the AC/battery switching. Can someone inform me if these directories are appropriately scanned and executed when systemd boots the system, or different hooks (where?) would be needed for that case? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi- support/+bug/59695/comments/818 ** Changed in: pm-utils (Fedora) Importance: Unknown => Medium -- 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
