bug in ubuntu "kill" hardrive

[David Vincent]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> That workaround is not _simple_.  It's a pain in the butt, for potentially
> little gain.  It takes far more than a "competent" user to know whether it
> is safer to disable the head retraction or to put up with some increased
> heat in the drive. While it should have been obvious that it isn't
> Ubuntu-specific, I'd be surprised if there are very many people who've read
> the entire bug report.  It goes on and on and on, and the Ubuntu devs don't
> seem to care much and _nobody_ knows how serious it really is.

that last bit is true.  as for the first bit it took me five minutes to 
implement the fix when i followed the instructions.  in my opinion 
that's an easy fix.

-d