Comment 349 for bug 59695

its weird the you say that the situation is the same in windows yet some people say windows does not park the heads at all.

if it is true it means that a windows machine hard drive would not last long before being destroyed by the high load/unload count.

there are two options:

1) your hard drive can handle all this loading/unloading so its enabled
2)some how results of your tests are screwed up. (this does not necessarily mean you are doing something wrong)

either way i dont know what to tell you. the only idea i have is contacting your hard drive manufacturer and asking him but all this.

imo this problem is not being fixed because no one is making a consistent effort to test the situation on both Linux and windows. if you want to put some effort in to it myself and other will try to offer suggestions.

maybe we can compile a list of people with models whose hard drives where trashed because if this problem to put some pressure on having someone who can actually commit code and is more experienced at solving this kind of problems.

Maor