[CoLoCo] Ubuntu causing problems with hard drives

[Collins Richey]

On 10/24/07, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lame...  I'm at over 600,000...  so I'll probably start to fail soon.  And I
> need all the battery power I can get, so I can't do that hack to fix the
> loading...   : (
>

Not stated anywhere in this thread but crystal clear from the
referenced url that this is not really a Ubuntu problem but rather a
problem with bios and/or acpi defaults, except for the "laptop mode"
case where the trade off is battery drain vs. hard drive stress.

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Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
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