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

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:37:19PM -0000, Tormod Volden wrote:
> I have tested the 0.109-0hardy1 from hardy-proposed on a couple of
> laptops. (One had a count of 300000, I had it running continuously on AC
> for a couple of months. Bad.) The count is now stopped while on AC. It
> increases on battery even if I have laptop_mode enabled. BTW, what it
> exactly the function of point 5 in the test case? Shouldn't 6 and 7 work
> without 5 anyway?

The point is to make sure there are no interactions that cause a regression
when laptop-support is enabled.

Cheers,
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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
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