Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-04-02 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:51, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, tom arnall wrote: > > well, I did 'hdprm -B 255' and let the thing sit overnight. The next day > > the number of load cycles was ~300 as best I can remember. Did the same > > thing with same results for 'hdprm

Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, tom arnall wrote: > well, i did 'hdprm -B 255' and let the thing sit overnight. the next day the > number of load cycles was ~300 as best i can remember. did the same thing > with same results for 'hdprm -B 254'. You must make sure something else is not resetting it (like a

Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-16 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 16 March 2008 06:01, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 20:19:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. > > below is ouput of: > > > > date >> ~/logfile > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 >> ~/logfile >

Re: system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 20:19:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. below is > ouput of: > > date >> ~/logfile > sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 >> ~/logfile > sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep " 9" >> ~/logfile