fc3 with kernel 2.6.10 stresses hard disk.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Mar 2 20:54:30 UTC 2005
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:15:45PM +0100, walter neumann wrote:
> I bugzilla-ed the following hidden problem a few weeks ago. Others
> might check if they are experiencing it or whether it is a glitch with
> my hardware. If it is at all widespread, developers should know.
>
> Since upgrading to the 2.6.10 kernels my hard disk started parking 2
> to 3 times a minute, at which rate it will reach its advertised 'end
> of life' engineering limit on the number of head parks in less than a
> year. This is invisible in use: no unusual disk activity is noticable.
> I discovered it by noticing that my drive's Load_Cycle_Count, as
> reported by the smartctl, had increased as much in two weeks as in the
> previous 9 months.
>
> My current kernel is 2.6.10-1.766_FC3, but earlier 2.6.10 kernels did
> the same. Booting back into a 2.6.9 kernel fixes the problem.
>
> I fixed the problem for myself in 2.6.10 by adding "hdparm -B254
> /dev/hda" to my startup scripts.
Do you have any settings related to this in your BIOS power management options?
Dave
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