[CoLoCo] Ubuntu causing problems with hard drives

[Brandan E. Lloyd]

My Gazelle Value has the same problem. Load Cycle of  112,636 at 262
days since purchase averaging out to about 430 cycles per day.

I determined the load cycle by installing smartmontools:

    sudo aptitude install smartmontools

and running:
    sudo smartctl /dev/hda

which output some data one of the data points Load_Cycle_Count which
contained the relevant data.

Brandan


On 10/24/07, John Edwards <eric.the.grey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How can you tell, and is it possible to determine the load cycle 1.5 months
> after installing the drive?  My laptop was just upgraded from it's original
> 40gig to a 120gig drive.  I did this for added space, and the ability to
> dual-boot and has worked fairly well, but I'd had to damage that new drive.
>
> Also, beyond battery life, are there any other negatives to the command to
> shut this feature off?  I rarely run on battery because mine doesn't give me
> much time, although Ubuntu reports longer life than XP does.
>
>
> John Edwards
>
>
>
> On 10/24/07, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately it's not only with the hitachi drives as indicated.  I
> > have the issue with my system76 darter:
> >
> > My Load cycle is 332,999
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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