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

[Yann]

This problem is still there under ubuntu Hardy 8.04 (LTS... but with present settings, my HD will not last 3 years!).
I've a brand new HDD, a WD scorpio 320Gb. Hardy hdparm -B defaults to 128 even on AC power, leading this drive to have heads parked/unparked every minutes. 600000 minutes average lifetime is about 1 year.

Please fix this. Note that I reinstalled from live-CD. previously I was
running Dapper (6.06) and never experimented such behaviour.

There is a lot of duplicates of this bug since more than one year now,
which is currently read by in charge teams?

The result is we can expect a lot of HDD starting to dead now and
furious users that will never run ubuntu or even Linux anymore. So why
such a poor reactivity for this critical problem? Having them coming
back in mass to Redmond? Shit...

Please also note that common fixes (99* shell scripts in various
/etc/acpi/*.d) does not survive restoring from a suspend to ram: acpid
seems to override scripts settings after script execution (or do not
execute them at all?). This is the behaviour of current 2.6.24 hardy
kernel.

A small Heron being "hardy"... I should have been careful. Next is
"intrepid" ibex? Holly shit, what must be expected from this "intrepid"
one? Machine burning after install?

Regards

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