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

[David A. Desrosiers]

> Agree. My Load_Cycle_Counter has run down from 82 to 75 in only 1.5 
> month. The default setting was -B 128. I forced it to -B 254 on 
> boot. So it's interesting if countdown indeed will now be slower.

 	Which value should I look at?

# smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep Load
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 57191

# smartctl -a /dev/hdc | grep Load
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 083 083 000 Old_age Always - 174697


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