[Bug 59695] High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2009-01-06 Thread Martin Pitt
Accepted acpi-support into hardy-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Re: [Bug 59695] High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2008-02-10 Thread Bart Samwel
Akshay Srinivasan wrote: So , the hard disk doesn't exactly go into suspend when the disk head is parked, so the kernel doesn't get to know that the disk head is parked(because standby=parking) - it interprets this as a sign that the hard disk is in Active/Idle mode.So it doesn't bother

[Bug 59695] High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2008-02-09 Thread Akshay Srinivasan
So , the hard disk doesn't exactly go into suspend when the disk head is parked, so the kernel doesn't get to know that the disk head is parked(because standby=parking) - it interprets this as a sign that the hard disk is in Active/Idle mode.So it doesn't bother stopping data from being written to