Ubuntu
acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #129

Comment 129 for bug 59695

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karlbowden (karlbowden) wrote : Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

I have a 4 month (approx) old Dell XPS M1210 running Gutsy now. It has never run anything other than Ubuntu.
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 062 062 000 Old_age Always - 386280

My biggest concern with this not being marked as critical is that I have changed EVERY setting in the bios and it still increases at 4 per minute. And there are no settings in the gnome power management preferences.

If I do not at least get a standard control to reduce this rate I dont think I will have any choice but to keep trying distros until I find a more hdd friendly one. But then again, I have still not seen it do any damage to any old hard drives i've been running though.

I'm happy enough adding in extra power management scripts as long as it dosent get interfered with on a apt-get upgrade.