Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

[Tim]

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 

And a few hours later:

[root at suspishus ~]#  smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       16736

During this time, I've read a few e-mails, looked at a few webpages,
left the computer idling for quite a fair amount of time.

The head's cycled a around 500 times since three hours and forty-five
minutes ago, and it's been running off mains power (so not battery save
features should have been doing their thing).

I think this issue is far from trivial, nor sorted out.

If anyone wants more technical information, tell me what to provide.  If
anyone has some things to mitigate the problem, I'm all ears.

-- 
(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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