>> and may lead to early hard drive failure. > Not true. HDD are made for constant spinning. They can spin for several many > month constantly without problems.
Actually I misspoke: in my case, g-p-m is causing excessive spin-down & spin-up cycles, not preventing it from spinning down. On battery, my HDD spins down after about 20 seconds of inactivity. Then 60 seconds later g-p-m writes to disk and causes it to spin up. Then 20 seconds later it spins down again... and repeat. Therefore, for me the title of this bug should be "g-p-m causing excessive HDD spin cycles". The bug is the same as you observed, but the effect seems to be different depending on your HDPARM or other HDD settings while on battery. -- g-p-m keeps disk spinning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315970 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
