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

[Alvaro Kuolas]

I thought that this could be easily fixable with "hdparm -B 128" for
battery and "hdparm -B 254" on AC. Ok, we need to work around some HDD
quirks but the rest is straight forward.  The hard drive itself is no so
important, this is true if the drive conforms with hdparm instructions.
In my case I've tested WDIDLE3.EXE on FreeDOS and disable the "idle3",
but it behaves the same on Ubuntu thanks to acpi-support. laptop-mode is
conflicting with acpi-support. I don't know why GnomePowerManager do
it's own stuff.

We need a centralized Power Management support.

SuSE have this, pm-utils and a black list.

I think that is a good solution, and would be now. If we wait to the
ultimate solution, maybe by then it will be too late.

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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