Hi, The output of the command is:
# smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SAMSUNG HM160HI Serial Number: S1C8J56QB31613 Firmware Version: HH100-12 User Capacity: 160,041,885,696 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 Local Time is: Tue Feb 17 10:01:46 2009 BRT ==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details. SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled After you have disabled power management, the problem stopped. Best regards, -- []'s Messias Alves 2009/2/17 Renato S. Yamane <yam...@diamondcut.com.br> > Hi, > > I see some users with this problem again. > > Load_Cycle_Count increase 1 in each 2 minutes. > > User can hear this sound in each 2 minutes: > <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=8777&action=view> > > # date > Seg Fev 16 15:44:27 BRT 2009 > # smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1997 > > # date > Seg Fev 16 16:46:07 BRT 2009 > # smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2025 > > This mean 600.000 counter in only 892 days. > > Messias, can you inform us your HDD model? > #smartctl -i /dev/sda > > And if this problem is happening when you disable hdd power management? > #hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda > > Best regards, > Renato S. Yamane >
