[maverick] HD spins down all the time on AC
Bug #606706 reported by
Christian Schürer-Waldheim
This bug affects 13 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pm-utils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Martin Pitt | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
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High
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pm-utils
Today pm-utils got updated from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.1-1. Since then, the hard drive spins down all the time. For instance while reading a web page in firefox, I can hear the hard drive spin down and up several times a minute - even being on mains power supply. The load cycle increased by more than 20 within 2-3 minutes.
Changed in pm-utils (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in pm-utils (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-10.10 |
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Martin and Michael, I subscribed you to this bug report because you made the recent changes in pm-utils.
[quote]
Current hooks when switching to battery:
- [hal-cd-polling] Disable HAL's polling of CD drives for automounting
them. Note that this HAL functionality is already obsolete in Debian's
current GNOME, but still being used in current KDE and XFCE desktops.
- [harddrive] More aggressive harddrive spindown times
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The changelog is saying that a more aggressive harddrive spindown is set when on battery, but could it be that this option is also active when on mains power? Because another thing I notices since pm-utils was updated is that my CD drive spins up from time to time even there is no CD ROM in it, which could be caused by the disabled cd polling.