On Saturday 27 October 2007, Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a total amateur and new to the list. I moved recently from linux
> and I am running openbsd usually (not on this system) because of a
> number of things (I guess I don't need to be eloquent here).
>
> Now, a friend of mine has found a big problem:
>
> http://www.linux-hero.com/rant/explanation-ubuntu-hard-drive-wear-and-tear
And the same link shows the solution:
1) I added the following lines to my hdparm.conf:
/dev/sda {
apm = 255
}
2) I created a file /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-stop-hitachi-madness.sh
with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
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deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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