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

[Peter B. West]

>> 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.

I have found on my G41 that setting 254 for power-on operation led to 
"ticking" of the drive. I now set a value of 240, and that seems to 
control the ticking while presumable giving good performance without too 
much stress on the drive.

Peter

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