On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 11:33 +0000, Åskar wrote: > No fix mentioned here works for me..my harddrive is still slowly dying > with about 5 loadcycle increased every 10 seconds!
If *no* fix works for you, and your count is increasing that quickly, use this script (this really *is* a dirty fix). [code] #! /bin/sh while [ 1 ]; do touch /tmp/foobar.tmp sleep 3 done [/code] (skip the code and /code tags if they aren't interpreted by the bugtracker -- that was just to put the script in a block by itself. If it *is* in a block by itself, nevermind.) That will keep your disk busy enough that it doesn't sleep. If you need to, decrease sleep 3 to sleep 2. It would be a lot better if you asked the manufacturers of your disk for a utility which changes this behaviour, if it's available. -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs