[Bug 445852] Re: devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death

[GenericAnimeBoy]

I'd rather not join in with hysterical finger-pointing, but it's been a
month and a half, people.  The workaround in #147 (modified in #160 for
working systems) could easily have been implemented as a script,
packaged up, and pushed out via the software updater by now, and the fix
could have been rolled into the Karmic .iso's.  You have to realize just
how critical this is: the only reason I even became aware of this
problem was that when the SSD hung up during boot (as a result of this
bug) my gnome-applets failed to load.  For every affected user who is on
launchpad following this bug, I would guess there have been at least 3
others who have just ignored the occasional glitches, thinking that it's
nothing major.

How many drives have been destroyed in the month and a half since the
workaround was published?  Replacing an SSD in a netbook is an
expensive, time consuming, and (if you do it yourself) warranty voiding
operation.

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devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death
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