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Old 18th August 2015
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Default Taming Load_Cycle_Count

I'm running NetBSD on a laptop. The Load_Cycle_Count increases way too fast on my Toshiba SATA drive.

Google finds a lot of information for Linux. The referred Linux commands don't exist on NetBSD. Anyone?
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I'm running NetBSD on a laptop. The Load_Cycle_Count increases way too fast on my Toshiba SATA drive.

Google finds a lot of information for Linux. The referred Linux commands don't exist on NetBSD. Anyone?
What commands are you trying to use?

On NetBSD you can show the basic smart status values with 'atactl wd0 smart status', and you can install smartmontools from pkgsrc to add smartctl for more options.

Do you mean "Device power cycle count"? Is it increasing more often than once per power cycle? Do you have any ideas on what is triggering the increases?
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What commands are you trying to use?
hdparm.


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On NetBSD you can show the basic smart status values with 'atactl wd0 smart status', and you can install smartmontools from pkgsrc to add smartctl for more options.
Oh, atactl seems to be the NetBSD equivalent of hdparm. This disables power management and thus stops increasing Load_Cycle_Count:

atactl wd0 apm set 253

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Do you mean "Device power cycle count"? Is it increasing more often than once per power cycle? Do you have any ideas on what is triggering the increases?
No,
Code:
# smartctl -a /dev/rwd0d  | grep Load_Cycle_Count
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3683

Last edited by ocicat; 19th August 2015 at 05:08 PM. Reason: Please use [code] & [/code] tags when posting console output.
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Ah, glad you have found a solution
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