Comment 781 for bug 59695

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:18:43PM -0000, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> Well. I think that hdparm -B 128 is a too low value... This is the
> problem!

> I've set it to 200 and now I don't have an infinite number of head
> parking as before!

Because setting it to 200 is defined to not permit spin-down. It is an
implementation decision to continue to spin down when on battery, not a bug.

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