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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #517

Comment 517 for bug 59695

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Alexey Borzenkov (snaury) wrote :

Hi pelm,

I had an exactly the same issue with my Samsung drive, I suspect this could be happening because of overheating or some other hardware problem causing superclicks if heads are not parked for more than a minute or so. I'm tired of repeating that disabling power management is *not* a solution. Minimizing disk access is. And that's what laptop-mode is for.

Please see my comments:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/476
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/487

As well as a recent bug report to fix laptop-mode not working on startup:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/239419

I'm surprised that it works so well for me for so long (despite constantly fighting ubuntu "fixes") and yet there are no comments from developers or anyone else.