Comment 678 for bug 59695

Well, sadly, the new acpi-support has not fixed things for my X40. It has a Hitachi drive, Model Number: HTC426040G9AT00. Even with the least aggressive settings (-B 255 and -B 254) it still parks the heads more than once a minute. As far as I can tell, the settings "took" -- hdparm -I shows the correct APM level -- but the drive just ignores them. Hitachi's disk tool doesn't support this drive, so I can't hand-edit the firmware.

Is there any hope, or am I doomed to watch my basically new hard disk chew itself up and die?