<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Far more alarming is the load_cycle_count attribute, which probably started<br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote">
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at 100 and is now 18 (after 829207 load cycles). My guess is that the OP<br>
has left the APM settings at default. Personally, for laptop drives, I<br>
write a little ACPID script which disables hard disc APM whenever the laptop<br>
is on AC power. I've also found it necessary to do something similar on my<br>
new MythTV box which uses 2TB WD Caviar Black drives.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Could you elaborate on this? For the drive in question (my laptop), I had used Windows 7 for the longest before installing Arch on it recently and using Windows sparsely now but for company apps that don't jive with wine/*nix. In the Windows power settings I have it set to never idle the HD. In linux now, I haven 't set anything for it either, I am using laptop-mode-tools (<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop_Mode_Tools">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop_Mode_Tools</a>). If you'll check the Hard Disk section of that link, I have implemented that command to 254. If you can recommend an improved means of handling the HD spin/power management by all means I'd like to do that, as I have not configured it at all really beyond that.<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Bobby<br>