HDD spindown is very frequent

Bug #931223 reported by PicMon
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
hdparm (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

On 12.04 both alpha 1 and 2, the spindown of laptop harddisk is very frequent. Mostly few times per minute. It is annoying and I suppose it can cause damage to the harddisk. Last but not least it does not save battery life.

Thank you for considering to change default values.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: hdparm 9.37-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic-pae 3.2.5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-15-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Feb 13 02:48:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120125)
SourcePackage: hdparm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-03 (9 days ago)

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PicMon (mponik) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in hdparm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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