Comment 811 for bug 59695

I gave to my wife a new Samsung N150 Plus Netbook last year. Last month the hard drive died but the warranty covered a new hard drive, so it was fine. Now with the new hard drive i was able to hear every 6 seconds that the heads are parking, and i tried many things and i cannot make it stop. Now i wonder the first hard drive (the one that died 1 months ago and my wife lost tons of data) died because of this bug. I know that this is an old bug now, but in this netbook is defenitly back and i tried adding this command in /etc/init.d

sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda

even i tried to edit the laptop_mode.conf settings to do no power management in this hard drive and i had no luck, the packages had changed over the last versions of ubuntu and i do not know where to edit to disable this powr management. Now this hard drive has over 16000 load cycle counts and it keeps growing.

Anyone has starting to experience this? how do i stop this power management in order to save this drive because the netbook warranty just expired this month?

regards