Comment 488 for bug 59695
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| Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote | #488 |
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(Get the code!)
revelationman: did you try the "ugly fix" proposed above? It should be doing exactly what Windows currently does. ;-)
[code]
#! /bin/sh
while [ 1 ]; do
touch /tmp/foobar.tmp
sync
sleep 3
done
[/code]
Ubuntu is not at fault here and I've been using it on many laptops without trouble. The fact is Windows seems to have no power management at all, and is constantly using the hard disk, preventing it from parking. Your hard disk is broken, and sure it would be nicer if Ubuntu could save it, but understand that it's not easy: we can't break all ACPI support because if some lame ducks.