Potential hardware issue with too often HDD heads parking

Ivan Vasilyev vasilyev at inr.ru
Wed Oct 31 12:49:16 PDT 2007


Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi
>
> Probably does not related to FreeBSD, but anybody may confirm that
> FreeBSD laptops are not affected ?
>
> https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html
>
>   
At least mine is affected. It's HP nx6310 with Fujitsu MVH2060BH hdd. 
During ten months of operation Power-off_Retract_Count value went up to 
60000. "ataidle -P 254" brought that to stop and periodic clicks had 
also disappeared.




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