Comment 70 for bug 952556

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Dagnachew L. (dagnachewl) wrote :

sudo hdparm -B 128 -S 242 /dev/sda

this seems to make my HD happy. no spinning, no nagging, excellent battery life (+5 hours) , ...
But, i have to run the above at every boot.I tried putting that in /etc/rc.locale but no success. I can live with this at least for now, with the hope that someone will figure out what wrong is going on.