[ltp] Head's up: new Lenovo BIOSes and HD APM (hdparm -B)

Vivek Dasmohapatra linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:21:18 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Marcus Hagn wrote:

> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   089   089   000    Old_age
> Always       -       1134727071806
>
> Should I really get worried ;-) ?

The raw load cycle count is ridiculously high - but I believe the spec 
doesn't mandate what the raw number should mean. Of more interest are
the "value" and "worst value so far" numbers, and the "trip-point" number.

The value is 89, and the trip point is 0 - so you've used about 11% of the
drives load-unload cycle life so far.