[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Towers <larch42 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found
>> that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite
>> significantly. This may be a freak and I would love to know whether
>> there really is something behind it, but when I used -B 200 the
>> temperature increase was clearly smaller, but the load cycle count did
>> not increase!!! Is this actually at all possible? Does the -B option
>> do something other than only affecting head loading? Does anybody
>> know?
>>
>> In looking through the storage-fixup package data I see that always -B
>> 254 or -B 255 is set, so obviously there is no sign of other, possibly
>> more optimal values there.
>>
>
> That sounds like an interesting concern, you might want to ask
> upstream (= storage-fixup maintainers) about it :)

Anyone happen to know how often the storage-fixup rules are updated?
My Eee drive isn't listed (mine does NOT have an SSD) so I'm not sure
what the hdparm params should be.