Comment 297 for bug 59695

I finally fixed on my laptop (Acer Aspire 1662, Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 - HD Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB) by editing the file:

/etc/hdparm.conf

with:

/dev/hda {
apm = 255
spindown_time = 255
}

No more parking at all and non problems of over-heating.

My girlfriend's laptop (Toshiba A100, Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 and HD Toshiba 120 GB) reached about 26000 cycles in about 110 hours of use.
The option below (apm=255) seemed not to do anything. I tried apm = 254 and it stopped clicking at all but the operating temperature of HD was increased dramatically. So I choosed a value of apm = 210 which caused a good compromise between parking and over-heating.

I hope my personal experience could be useful...