[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Milan]

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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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
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