Nico,
I don't think you need to disable laptop-mode completely, but I think you probably want to set CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=0 to let pm-utils take care of this.
Nico,
I don't think you need to disable laptop-mode completely, but I think you probably want to set CONTROL_ HD_POWERMGMT= 0 to let pm-utils take care of this.