On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:14 +1030, Tim wrote: > This is from today, which hasn't changed while I've been re-issuing > the command over the last few minutes: > > [root@suspishus ~]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 16252 And a few hours later: [root@suspishus ~]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 16736 During this time, I've read a few e-mails, looked at a few webpages, left the computer idling for quite a fair amount of time. The head's cycled a around 500 times since three hours and forty-five minutes ago, and it's been running off mains power (so not battery save features should have been doing their thing). I think this issue is far from trivial, nor sorted out. If anyone wants more technical information, tell me what to provide. If anyone has some things to mitigate the problem, I'm all ears. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
