Hard disk high temperature / load cycle count

[Andrzej Kłapeć]

As requested, I'm reporting this bug. I'll try to include all the needed information here.

The default aggressive APM / AAM setting ( =254 ) does a fine job on the load_cycle_count rising issue but actually makes the HDD run really hot.
FYI, on Windows 7 I have set APM = 231 and AAM = 128 and the temperature is lower ( about 41 C comparing to 50 C on Ubuntu with the default APM = 254 ) and surprisingly there's NO load_cycle_count rising problem. The disk simply doesn't click at all. While on Ubuntu, if I lower the APM and AAM values ( 231 & 128 - just like on Windows ), the hdd gets indeed cooler but there comes the load_cycle_count issue - it raises about 1 point every minute.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic 2.6.35-19.28
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: andrzej 1388 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc500000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD73C1X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7675,102802be,00100103'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 10
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfc010000 irq 47'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
Date: Wed Sep 1 16:50:51 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1555
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=c62b2ed6-29ce-43c5-8ac3-db5127776ffe ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
RfKill:
 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 03/29/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0J276M
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A11
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A11
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd03/29/2010:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1555:pvrA11:rvnDellInc.:rn0J276M:rvrA11:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA11:
dmi.product.name: Studio 1555
dmi.product.version: A11
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi SolidSlash,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Andrzej Kłapeć (solidslash)]

I could give it a try although I need to know how can I apply a patch to a .deb packaged kernel (a mainline 2.6.36-rc4-maverick kernel ) files so that I could use fglrx module ( there's a patch for fglrx compatibility with 2.6.36-x kernels ).

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