Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-mobile (9 mails)

["Ivan N. Zlatev" <contact@xxxxxxxx>]

I was wondering the other day why I hear a couple of strange scratches
per minute from my laptop's HDD with openSUSE 10.3 and I've got
directed to Major bug #338230
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=338230).

Is it true that after an average of 600k load cycles a HDD dies? If so
how come this bug has not been addressed already? It has been filed
for 10.2. I am using 10.3 and is still present. I do understand that
this is supposedly a bug by the manufacturers, because they've set
very small spin down "timeout", but does this mean we have to just
leave it as it is and not provide a workaround, so that running
openSUSE doesn't cause shortened life of the HDD? This is a fairly
major issue in my opinion, what do you think?

I have applied the workaround from the wiki page
(http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management) listed in the bug and
it works. I was wondering whether it's the best workaround? Are the
two values good enough - hdparm -q -B 254 -q -S 242 on AC adaptor and
hdparm -q -B 200 -q -S 252 on battery?
Thanks in advance!

-- 
Ivan N. Zlatev

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