On Sun, 4 May 2008 21:36:15 +0200
Jan Ritzerfeld
Am Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008 schrieb James PEARSON:
[...] In order to answer your queston (Load_Cycle_Count variations as seen by smartctl under B2 ) I decided to recompile the kernel as that is a fairly heavy loadwork. [...]
This special value increases, if there is almost no load. Putting the hard drive under heavy load will stop the increase. See http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management
Ok so I left my T60 on all night (23 h 30 to 7 h 30 this morning) Here is the new reading... linux:~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2746 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org