From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 14:35:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C543B1065670 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DAA8FC13 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1NeUhv-000Ma7-1k; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:35:23 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov To: Dan Naumov References: <20100208145504.762eaa7b.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:35:22 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Dan Naumov's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0200") Message-ID: <55033829@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: one more load-cycle-count problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:24 -0000 On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0200 Dan Naumov wrote: > WDIDLE3 changes the drive firmware. This is also how WD can detect > you've used it on your disk and void your warranty accordingly :) I've upgraded the firmware at five WD1000FYPS disks. One of them still kept on running load cycles. Then I used wdidle3 to disable this feature at this particular disk. Finally that helped. But I don't see any changes at the disk geomentry. It's just the same as before (and other four disks as well). May be not all disks are affected by a geometry change. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve