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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 59695

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote : Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

> The Load_Cycle_Count on my Laptop's several year old Hitachi drive with Debian installed is 95076488844.
> That's 95 billion load cycles. And still working. Probably the disks don't wear out that quickly.

>>> 95076488844 / 3 / 365 / 24 / 60 / 60
1004

If 'several' means 3, then that's an average of 1004 loads and unloads per second.

Seems like your load cycle counter is broken.