On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:15:45PM +0100, walter neumann wrote: > I bugzilla-ed the following hidden problem a few weeks ago. Others > might check if they are experiencing it or whether it is a glitch with > my hardware. If it is at all widespread, developers should know. > > Since upgrading to the 2.6.10 kernels my hard disk started parking 2 > to 3 times a minute, at which rate it will reach its advertised 'end > of life' engineering limit on the number of head parks in less than a > year. This is invisible in use: no unusual disk activity is noticable. > I discovered it by noticing that my drive's Load_Cycle_Count, as > reported by the smartctl, had increased as much in two weeks as in the > previous 9 months. > > My current kernel is 2.6.10-1.766_FC3, but earlier 2.6.10 kernels did > the same. Booting back into a 2.6.9 kernel fixes the problem. > > I fixed the problem for myself in 2.6.10 by adding "hdparm -B254 > /dev/hda" to my startup scripts. Do you have any settings related to this in your BIOS power management options? Dave
