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 Web: http://www.i-nZ.net "It's all some kind of whacked out conspiracy." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-mobile+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-mobile+help@opensuse.org