<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I am having some ACPI issues and in the course of trying to figure out these issues I came a bug where Ubuntu default power settings seem to be causing frequent load cylces on the hard drive. I put Ubuntu on my brand new no-os laptop about nine months ago and I already have over 200,000 load cycles on my HDD.<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html">https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html</a></span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695</a></span><br><br>Also I am having DSDT problems which I am trying to resolve with the following guides. <span class="postbody">Are there some better instructions I could be following specific
for Ubuntu?</span><br><br><strong></strong><strong><font color="#000080" face="Arial"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122145">http://forums.gentoo.org /viewtopic.php?t=122145</a><br></font></strong><strong></strong><strong><font color="#000080" face="Arial"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=13893">http://suseforums.net/index .php?showtopic=13893</a><br></font></strong><br>Thanks,<br><br>**************************************************<br>Vincen Collins<br>Cell: 303-880-7481<br>Email: vincencollins@yahoo.com<br>**************************************************</div></div></div></div><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com </body></html>