Comment 50 for bug 59695
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| Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks | #50 |
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(Get the code!)
May i just warn ya all to NOT play the blame-game?
It does sound like it's the fault of the BIOS (and somebody should contact them).
To rescue a hard-drive in distress sounds like something that should have a high-priority (critical?).
Not because it's ubuntu's fault or the bios fault. But because Ubuntu can solve this issue _now_.
How many machines are we talking here? Hundres, maybe thousands?
Help these people out: save those hard-drives!
Suggested priority: critical (data-loss, hardware failure, come on!)
Suggested update-mechanism: security-updates (the complete integrity of the system is in jeopardy)
Just a quick script that checks wether the values are sane and if not default to something sane.
Also, obviously, windows is checking for sane values, although it might be the vendor's fault, ubuntu is going to get the blame.
Hell considering we're destroying hardware, even a fix that would just _tell_ these users to deinstall ubuntu and reinstall windows would be a better situation than trashing their drives within a couple of months.