https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386555
User roland.kletzing@materna.de added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386555#c33
--- Comment #33 from roland kletzing
This is tough to solve.
yes, probably. so why not creating better "transparency" for the end user here ? smartctl can read the power-on-hours and the load_cycle_count. each value for itself doesn't tell much... you won`t even need the power_on_hours value if you just check for load cycle count increase for specific time intervals. if we want to stop harddisk vendors doing such dumb things, more users must raise an eyebrow. the more noise about this, the more chances vendors will do something about that. but how should an technically inexperienced user know, that he actually suffers from that issue ? one step into that direction would be adding a feature to smartmontools to give out a warning message, when it detects excessive load cycle count number. see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=261451287%40web.de&forum_name=smartmontools-support ---
It works on the HP Pavillion. Moreover, it seems the problem is being addressed also by the manufacturer with a new firmware.
any link/information for that? WD support was pretty ignorant about this issue and it wouldn`t hurt telling them that other vendors do something about that problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.