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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John

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