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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #373

Comment 373 for bug 59695

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Akshay Srinivasan (akshay.srinivasan) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

I confirm Ctenor's trick of inserting high values in the
dirty_writeback_centisecs file.From my empiral calculations , I found
the value was read as millisecs instead of centisecs.

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 08:43 +0000, Akshay Srinivasan wrote:
> I was listening to my Hard drive , when running Ubuntu.I could hear the
> disk heads parking , but the disk itself doesn't spin down.It spins down
> -standby mode- when one runs 'hdparm -y /dev/sda'.It stayed in standby
> for quite a long time.Doesn't this seem a little odd ?I thought it was
> spinning down when the disk heads parked .
>