Re: Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

Tim:
The head's cycled a around 500 times since three hours and forty-five
minutes ago, and it's been running off mains power (so not battery save
features should have been doing their thing).

Alan Cox:
If you want to change your drive behaviour from the vendor supplied
defaults see "man hdparm"

I have. But what you have is an abstract range of numbers which apply
some sort of power management, but without any definition of what those
numbers mean, other than more or less power management. You don't get
something like - if the drive has been idle for five minutes, or X
seconds, you can get the drive to park the head.

If you did, it'd be easy to set the drive to be kept awake by at least
the minimum time period that something happened on Fedora (e.g. if it
reads configuration files, or writes logs, once every two minutes, you'd
make the drive stay awake unless left idle for 5 minutes, and not have
the thing going on and off like a pendulum clock with a very slow
period).

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