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

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:24:51PM -0000, Paganini wrote:

> Is there any hope, or am I doomed to watch my basically new hard disk
> chew itself up and die?

If 'Advanced power management level' is correctly set to 254 on your drive,
and it's still parking, then I'm afraid I don't see anything else we can do
this to fix this from Ubuntu.  My understanding is that '254' means, by
definition, that the heads are not supposed to be parked; so you appear to
have buggy firmware.  You might have luck with talking to your vendor about
a firmware fix for the drive?

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