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  2. Comment #407

Comment 407 for bug 59695

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Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

I can confirm this too, the problem is not related to linux exclusively. we've
got some vostro 1500 one of them with vista and the rest with ubuntu. all of
them are affected by this bug.

According with our research the problem lies mostly on the Disk Drive
firmware's If you check the wiki page about this bug you'll find some hdd
firmware upgrades for lenovo laptops that addresses the problem.

Also if you ask Dell for warranty replacement they'll give it to you

El Lunes 17 Marzo 2008 01:27, Akshay Srinivasan escribió:
> I still wonder if its Ubuntu -Linux in general - is the cause of this
> problem.On my laptop , after removing unwanted apps Windows parks heads
> as frequently as linux.This takes some time to occur after startup - may
> be because of all that disk i/o.Can anyone confirm this ?There is a tool
> called Diskcheckup which you might want to use.

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