Samsung 7 Chronos & Mageia 2 64 bit

[galba]

I have a Samsung 7 Chronos notebook, and I have installed Mageia 2 64 bit as a bual boot with Win 7 64 bit, recently.
I'm very happy, all the hardware runs well basically out of the box with Mageia 2, even wifi and web cam and all the audio.

The one thing what really bothers me is, some service is turning the hard drive on and off every few seconds,
and that is cauing the system to slow down almost to 0, and even the cursor stops moving.
I've assumed that it's caused by the pover management and I've turned all off in the System Settings - Power Management,
but no change. There was no change even when I setted "Act like a PC running on AC Power".

I have monitored the upower deamon, upower -monitor-detail not it seems that this daemon does nothing, but monitoring the battery and HW. I will try to uninstall this upower deamon, will see what will happen, but will wait at least for a few days for a reply.

I would not mind, if the hard drive is constantly on and system runs on full power, but this hard drive on & off every 5-10 second will kill the hard drive for sure.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Gab

P.s.: There is a small issue with the touchpad driver, but it does not bother me at all, I'm using a mouse.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/lapt ... 0Z5B-S01UB
http://wiki.colar.net/ubuntu_12_04_on_s ... nos_laptop

[doktor5000]

In a terminal as root, query the settings of the drive (in my example "sda") via hdparm and look for "Advanced power management level"

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hdparm -I /dev/sda

To which value is it currently set?

[galba]

This is what I got:

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[gab@localhost ~]$ su root
Password:
[root@localhost gab]# hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB                 
        Serial Number:      S2RQJ9DC650969     
        Firmware Revision:  2AR10002
        Transport:          Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6, SATA Rev 3.0
Standards:
        Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0028)
        Supported: 8 7 6 5
        Likely used: 8
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   16383
        heads           16      1
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:    1032129
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors: 1953525168
        Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
        Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes
        Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes
        device size with M = 1024*1024:      953869 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:     1000204 MBytes (1000 GB)
        cache/buffer size  = 8192 KBytes
        Form Factor: 2.5 inch
        Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 5400
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Queue depth: 32
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16
        Advanced power management level: 1
        Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns                                                                                                                           
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4                                                                                                                                         
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns                                                                                                       
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    SMART feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    Power Management feature set
                Write cache
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    WRITE_BUFFER command
           *    READ_BUFFER command
           *    NOP cmd
           *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           *    Advanced Power Management feature set
                Power-Up In Standby feature set
           *    SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
                SET_MAX security extension
           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
           *    48-bit Address feature set
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
           *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
           *    SMART error logging
           *    SMART self-test
           *    General Purpose Logging feature set
           *    64-bit World wide name
           *    IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
           *    WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command
           *    {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
           *    Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           *    Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
           *    Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
           *    Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
           *    Host-initiated interface power management
           *    Phy event counters
           *    Idle-Unload when NCQ is active
           *    NCQ priority information
           *    DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
           *    Device-initiated interface power management
           *    Software settings preservation
           *    SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
           *    SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
           *    SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
           *    SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
           *    SCT Features Control (AC4)
           *    SCT Data Tables (AC5)
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
                frozen
        not     expired: security count
                supported: enhanced erase
        214min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 214min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50004cf207d26fe5
        NAA             : 5
        IEEE OUI        : 0004cf
        Unique ID       : 207d26fe5
Checksum: correct

[isadora]

Galba, very welcome to the Mageia forum!!!!

As you might have seen, your latest message has been modified.
We love to see terminal-output in between [CODE]-tags, as shown in following screen-cast:
http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/rpm/extr ... e_tags.ogv
Besides, i have moved the topic over from "General discussions about Mageia".

Anyhow, feel welcome and have magical times around!!!

[doktor5000]

Advanced power management level: 1
Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254

Please try to change as described f.ex. in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ost2910003
If that's the issue, you may want to read more about it at http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/1 ... iller-bug/ and https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/K ... nder_Linux

You might also try to disable the standby/idle mode via

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hdparm -S 0 /dev/sda

Note that is a capital S !!! A lowercase s would be rather dangerous, according to the hdparm manpage.

You might also try the -Z option:

-Z Disable the automatic power-saving function of certain Seagate drives (ST3xxx models?), to prevent them
from idling/spinning-down at inconvenient times.

More options are explained, as noted above, in the man page of hdparm

[galba]

Tis is what I have done, but so far it seem, the hard rive is in and off every 5 seconds.
Will try ot rebood it, just wondering if there is any difference after.

By the way, this hard drive on and off is happening only when the power supply is un- plugged.


[root@localhost gab]# hdparm -S 0 /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
setting standby to 0 (off)
[root@localhost gab]#

[doktor5000]

By the way, this hard drive on and off is happening only when the power supply is un- plugged.

Well, then i'd suggest reporting it as a bug: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly