Ticket #88 (closed defect: fixed)
The bug called "Laptop Hardrive Killer Bug" seems to exist in Parsix 1.0
| Reported by: | ali.tarihi@… | Owned by: | parsix-devel@… |
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| Priority: | highest | Component: | Installer System |
| Version: | 1.0 (ramon) | Severity: | critical |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
I use Ubuntu 7.10 till now. In ubuntu there is a bug called "Laptop Hardrive Killer Bug" mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695. It seems to exist in Parisix too. I used (http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/_ as a guide and in less than 2 mins, the counter increased by 3. (Also I can hear the ticking sound of my disk!)
BTW I'm testing the solution given there.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by ali.tarihi@…
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
It worked, thx. I wonder if a script could be written to do the job. I mean the detection & fix.
My idea is this:
1) smartctl will be added to the default packages of Ramon
2) The Load_Cycle_Count is tested initially. The after a reasonable time it is tested agaian. If the difference is more than a value. The fix would be applied.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by ali.tarihi@…
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution fixed deleted
The fix seems to work with normal boot...
But after Suspend/Hibernate? the bug appears again. I think hdparm must be set again after hibernate/suspend.
Only some Hitachi and Samsung hard drives are affected.
vim /etc/default/hdparm, add the following lines:
harddisks="/dev/sda"
hdparm_opts="-B 254"
Restart hdparm service and make sure that's started every time on boot (Ramon starts hdparm by default). Change /dev/sda line to meet your needs.