Comment 425 for bug 59695

I just purchased one of the new "Green" WD 500GB drives.

This is a desktop, 3.5" SATA drive.

It is the first desktop drive that I found which monitors 193 Load / Unload cycles.

After less than a week of use, I am already up to over 5500 load cycles. I can hear it clicking as well, once or twice per minute.

I try the hdparm command as root: #hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda

and it comes back with:
/dev/sda:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error

I'm thinking the load cycle increasing is similar to the laptop version - since it is based on power savings.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Drive model #: WD5000AACS

Is there a fix for the hdparm error? Am I doing something wrong?