[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[wolfchri]

Dan,

does disabling CD drive polling help on your machine?

Do you see any improvement from 
sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom  ?

(Side effect: does not open Nautilus window for a CD when inserted, turn
it back on by deleting the created file in
/etc/hal/fdi/information/prefrences.fdi )

Make sure that you compare your system while no applications are
running. On my system, the HD kept quiet once the heads were parked;
only disc access lead to new parking and click.

This is, by the way, a hint that powertop gave me. Maybe HAL or a bug in
HAL is waking up the HD s often.

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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