Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:14 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> This is from today, which hasn't changed while I've been re-issuing
>> the command over the last few minutes:
>>
>> [root at suspishus ~]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle
>> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       16252 
> 
> I should mention that the laptop only gets turned on for a few hours a
> day, and was bought around the 9th of this month.  That seems quite a
> high count.

It certainly does. This is my count:

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age   Always 
       -       68166

This is from my work laptop that was purchased in July 2005, currently 
running Fedora 7.

Regards
Ingemar