I can confirm this too, the problem is not related to linux exclusively. we've got some vostro 1500 one of them with vista and the rest with ubuntu. all of them are affected by this bug.
According with our research the problem lies mostly on the Disk Drive firmware's If you check the wiki page about this bug you'll find some hdd firmware upgrades for lenovo laptops that addresses the problem. Also if you ask Dell for warranty replacement they'll give it to you El Lunes 17 Marzo 2008 01:27, Akshay Srinivasan escribió: > I still wonder if its Ubuntu -Linux in general - is the cause of this > problem.On my laptop , after removing unwanted apps Windows parks heads > as frequently as linux.This takes some time to occur after startup - may > be because of all that disk i/o.Can anyone confirm this ?There is a tool > called Diskcheckup which you might want to use. -- Andrés Mauricio Mujica Zalamea Consultor Linux RHCE #804005093216652 SEAQ SERVICIOS CIA LTDA Tel: (57) 1 6559800 Fax: (57) 1 6559802 www.seaq.com.co -- 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
