Hi pelm, I had an exactly the same issue with my Samsung drive, I suspect this could be happening because of overheating or some other hardware problem causing superclicks if heads are not parked for more than a minute or so. I'm tired of repeating that disabling power management is *not* a solution. Minimizing disk access is. And that's what laptop-mode is for.
Please see my comments: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/476 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/487 As well as a recent bug report to fix laptop-mode not working on startup: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/239419 I'm surprised that it works so well for me for so long (despite constantly fighting ubuntu "fixes") and yet there are no comments from developers or anyone else. -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
