This bug is more than five months old, and it is still not fixed neither in Gutsy nor in Hardy?!(?!?!)
I find this horrific, especially because there are multiple well known and trivial fixes, not just in this thread. I would like to point out, that even applying the most trivial fix of disabling the APM power saving (-B 255) on every system by default is a magnitude better than the current state. I doubt if any power saving could be achieved by this feature, because on most system something causes a spin-up of the disk either way (syslog, atime writes, journaling etc.). And this feature has also nothing to do with shock-protection of the disks, that is the job of HDAPS and similar systems. And even when it would save power, losing 1% of battery power is not so bad compared to loosing half the lifetime of a HDD. Could someone please push any of the fixes upstream? -- 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
