revelationman: did you try the "ugly fix" proposed above? It should be doing
exactly what Windows currently does. ;-)
[code]
#! /bin/sh
while [ 1 ]; do
touch /tmp/foobar.tmp
sync
sleep 3
done
[/code]
Ubuntu is not at fault here and I've been using it on many laptops
without trouble. The fact is Windows seems to have no power management
at all, and is constantly using the hard disk, preventing it from
parking. Your hard disk is broken, and sure it would be nicer if Ubuntu
could save it, but understand that it's not easy: we can't break all
ACPI support because if some lame ducks.
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