Package: powertop Version: 1.10-2 Severity: important Powertop suggest enabling AHCI link power management, but this is unsafe when drives may be hot removed (without additional hardware support).
The Intel ICH9 datasheet says: " For reliable device removal notification while in AHCI operation without the use of interlock switches (surprise removal), interface power management should be disabled for the associated port. See Section 7.3.1 of the AHCI Specification for more information. " so probably just an addition to the tip saying that link power management should be disabled before hot-removing a drive is sufficient... -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages powertop depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand powertop recommends no packages. Versions of packages powertop suggests: ii cpufrequtils 004-2 utilities to deal with the cpufreq pn laptop-mode-tools <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
