[CoLoCo] Ubuntu causing problems with hard drives

[David Overcash]

Lame...  I'm at over 600,000...  so I'll probably start to fail soon.  And I
need all the battery power I can get, so I can't do that hack to fix the
loading...   : (

-David

On 10/24/07, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
>
> Okay, you have to do
>
> sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda
>
> and then you get the output. It seems that desktop drives don have a
> load cycle count but on my laptop it 69773 and I don't use this
> computer THAT often - 982 hours for power on it says. That works out
> to 71 cycles an hour or about 1 every minute. However, on its own,
> this data means nothing. Is there anything to compare this to? Is this
> usage high or average? What sort of numbers do other OSs have?
>
> Interesting topic though.
>
> Jim
>
> On 10/24/07, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> > Does this work on desktops? I just tried it and got no info back.
> > Although maybe it's also drive related. I have 2 WD 250GB drives.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
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