Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 11 21:03:38 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:08 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>> # hdparm -B 192 /dev/sda
>>
>> for a similar Toshiba drive to mine, and sure enough it stops the
>> Load_Cycle count cranking up here along with the clicking I have
>> suddenly become extremely sensitized to.
>>
>> Apparently you should stick it in /etc/rc.local to make it stick.
>
> I did get around to doing that, quite a while ago. But I set it at 255,
> to turn it off completely. Though, it doesn't accept that, and the
> value reads back as set at 254 (and disabled). Anyway, it did the trick
> of stopping the drive clunking off every few seconds.
>
> However, that only solves the problem on a system that's booted up. If
> I wake a computer up from hibernation, rc.local isn't executed, and the
> drive comes up with its default bad values. Is there a similar script
> that's run after de-hibernation? (Suspend to disk, in this case.)
>
Might be something in dbus.
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