[sf-lug] Major laptop issue with linux

[John Lowry]

It looks like it is a particular bug in some manufacturers default
settings for their drives. I am not sure who it is, I just remember it
was not affecting anything I had, forgot a lot of the specifics already
when I read about it. Ubuntu has a policy of going with default settings
for hardware, unless it causes a problem. They went with the default
here, without realizing it would kill a hard drive.
Blake Haggerty wrote:
> Is this an issue just with Ubuntu or all Linux distributions?
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:*Thomas DiZoglio tomdiz at yahoo.com
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> *Sent:* Oct 31, 2007 11:34:33 AM
> *Subject:* [sf-lug] Major laptop issue with linux
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> If you are running linux on a laptop using a battery check this out.
> You have about 139 days before your HD goes.
> https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html
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> ?When switching to battery power, /etc/acpi/power.sh
> issues the command hdparm -B 1 to all block devices. This leads to
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> frequent load cycles. For example, my new thinkpad has already done
> well over
> 7000 load cycles -- in only 100 hours. That's at least one unloading
> per minute.
> Googling for "load unload cycles notebook OR laptop" shows that most
> laptop
> drives handle up to 600,000 such cycles.?
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