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

Vincenzo Ciancia vincenzo_ml at yahoo.it
Wed Aug 20 19:22:47 UTC 2008


Il giorno mer, 20/08/2008 alle 03.48 +0000, Endolith ha scritto:
> 
> If your product is destroying users' hardware, this should be a TOP
> priority for fixing.  If you're not going to fix it, the very least
> you
> could do is include a script that checks for inordinate numbers of
> load
> cycles, warns the user, and points them to ways to fix it.  An obscure
> link to a confusing wiki page is not good enough.

Yes please, a script that checks if the problem is present should really
be added to hardy and intrepid, so to avoid very bad publicity in case
of a spread of broken disks caused by ubuntu.

Vincenzo

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