Re: Another one for fixup-storage

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:16:24 +0900
   From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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   Robert Krawitz wrote:
   >    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:22:51 +0900
   >    From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
   > 
   >    Robert Krawitz wrote:
   >    > This is for a Dell Inspiron E1705/9400.  I'm using a non-OEM disk (a
   >    > Hitachi 320 GB drive).
   >    > 
   >    > Note that matching on "MP061" doesn't work -- it needs to be "MP061*"
   >    > due to the way dmidecode seems to return the data (with a bunch of
   >    > spaces after the tag).  Hence I've attached the data rather than merely
   >    > 
   >    > I've only had this thing a month or so and already had over 70,000
   >    > unload cycles.  Ick.
   > 
   >    Can you please attach the result of "smartctl -a" output?
   > 
   > # smartctl -a /dev/sda
   > smartctl 5.39 2008-05-08 21:56 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
   > Copyright (C) 2002-8 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

   Thanks.  And how much does the load cycle count increase per hour
   without any adustment?

I didn't count it for a full hour (I put the workaround in place over
a month ago); it looked like it was incrementing something between 2
and 5 times per minute, as I recall.

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