I am still experiencing the problem, despite being up to date. My HDD is spinning down every few SECONDS. I changed the /etc/acpi/*.d/90-hdparm.sh files to read 254 on battery line as well, but that didn't fix it. I also tried removing the spin-down setting in /etc/apm/event.d/20hdparm and/or setting it to 0 or 300 or 100, but the hard drive still spins down just as often. I have verified laptop mode is off. I have even tried purging the laptop mode package. WHAT IS TURNING ON SPIN DOWN AND SETTING SUCH A LOW TIMER? I've turned off everything I can find, but it still happens on battery and to a lesser extent
I have an HP Mini 1033 notebook. These hard drives are speced for 100,000 spindowns, and this has wasted 10,000 of them before I resorted to writing a script that just resets the hdparm setting to 254 and the spindown to 0 every 60 seconds. (Yes, 0 disables spindown on here successfully until you next set the APM mode.) BTW, can you provide a copy of this wrapper for hdparm? You're killing my hard drive! Please stop this so I can use ubuntu safely! -- calls hdparm excessively at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438355 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
