I thought that this could be easily fixable with "hdparm -B 128" for battery and "hdparm -B 254" on AC. Ok, we need to work around some HDD quirks but the rest is straight forward. The hard drive itself is no so important, this is true if the drive conforms with hdparm instructions. In my case I've tested WDIDLE3.EXE on FreeDOS and disable the "idle3", but it behaves the same on Ubuntu thanks to acpi-support. laptop-mode is conflicting with acpi-support. I don't know why GnomePowerManager do it's own stuff.
We need a centralized Power Management support. SuSE have this, pm-utils and a black list. I think that is a good solution, and would be now. If we wait to the ultimate solution, maybe by then it will be too late. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
