Comment 449 for bug 59695

Well... I do think that if this issue were given a serious solution, many
laptop users would not hesitate to install ubuntu on their machines. I am an
average user, as most people out there, and many people would get confused
about having to run special commands to fix this issue. Moreover, they would
feel unsecure about it.

I agree with the idea that a serious approach / patch should be found soon,
so that it is definitively corrected, and stops creating concern among
laptop users, as me.

Are there any plans to really solve this soon?

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM, unggnu <email address hidden> wrote:

> I don't think this is a general Linux problem. I had this under Windows XP
> too. It has something to do with the Advanced power management which seems
> to be set to 128 per default from the hard disk producer which lets the hard
> disk sleep after a short time. At least under Linux it is very easy with one
> line in /etc/rc.local to set the value to 255.
> hdparm -B255 /dev/sda
> I don't see the problem and it doesn't seem to kill the hard disk so fast
> otherwise much more people had huge problems and the producers wouldn't ship
> them with activated advanced power management.
>
> --
> High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten
> lifetime
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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