Comment 533 for bug 59695
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| Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime | #533 |
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(Get the code!)
Il giorno mer, 20/08/2008 alle 03.48 +0000, Endolith ha scritto:
>
> If your product is destroying users' hardware, this should be a TOP
> priority for fixing. If you're not going to fix it, the very least
> you
> could do is include a script that checks for inordinate numbers of
> load
> cycles, warns the user, and points them to ways to fix it. An obscure
> link to a confusing wiki page is not good enough.
Yes please, a script that checks if the problem is present should really
be added to hardy and intrepid, so to avoid very bad publicity in case
of a spread of broken disks caused by ubuntu.
Vincenzo