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

[Hamish Marson]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Thomas Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ok, i'm really shocked by my hda's load-unload-cycles: smartctl -a
> /dev/hda | grep 'Load_Cycle_Count' -> 228778
>

I think I win...

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   062    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   040    Pre-fail
Offline      -       693
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   160   160   033    Pre-fail
Always       -       2
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age
Always       -       2469
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   040    Pre-fail
Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   087   087   000    Old_age
Always       -       6129
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age
Always       -       1818
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x000a   097   097   000    Old_age
Always       -       131076
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       44
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   065   065   000    Old_age
Always       -       350293
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   152   152   000    Old_age
Always       -       36 (Lifetime Min/Max 11/51)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       7
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0



350k... My thinkpad is 2 years old... I figure if the drive will
handle 600k that's about 3.5 years... I'll just replace the disk then.
They're pretty cheap in Malaysia when passing through. Even in the UK
I don't think they cost that much. And I'll need a bigger disk then
anyway. I don't think it's worth worrying about personally...



> i bought and installed this drive (HTS721010G9AT00) 2005/09/20...
>
> what about your load-unload-cycles? numbers? do i have to be
> alarmed by my 228778-count?
>
> greetings, thomas
>
>
> Am Dienstag, den 30.05.2006, 12:33 -0300 schrieb Henrique de Moraes
>  Holschuh:
>> On Mon, 29 May 2006, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>>> -A1 -a1024 -c1 -d1 -X69 -m16 -W1 -B10 -S4
>> -B10 is probably the same as -B1.  FWIW, Hitachi 5K100 will
>> diferentiate -B into three zones.  The first border is at 128, so
>> 1<=B<128 have the same effect.
>>
>> -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to
>> bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of
>> Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>> Henrique Holschuh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFEfWm6/3QXwQQkZYwRAsQtAKCTkH7YPP/g6WMEXhA3Qe7RYB6FbwCgwQoI
K+9rMBUsF1W/0zs00UjpHAI=
=R/b+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----