Package: acpi-support Version: 0.103-1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
(See also https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html for corresponding Ubuntu bug!) On a notebook with ACPI enabled, in battery mode the disk is retracted after 1 minute of idling. This leads to ~7000 retracts in only 100 hrs total runtime - and a notebook disk can handle only up to 600.000 retracts; this decreases the total life of a dsik to ~138 days, which is not even a half year. As a workaround, add the following to /etc/hdparm.conf: /dev/sda { apm = 255 } and the following must be put into a file called 99-fix-disk.sh: #!/bin/sh hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda This file has to be copied to: /etc/acpi/suspend.d/ /etc/acpi/resume.d/ /etc/acpi/start.d/ which shuts off the idling behaviour and saves a huge lot of disk life. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-023stab043.3-smp (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages acpi-support depends on: ii acpid 1.0.4-7.1 Utilities for using ACPI power man ii dmidecode 2.9-1 Dump Desktop Management Interface ii finger 0.17-11 user information lookup program ii hdparm 7.7-1 tune hard disk parameters for high ii laptop-detect 0.12.1-0.1 attempt to detect a laptop ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii nvclock 0.8b2-1 Allows you to overclock your nVidi ii powermgmt-base 1.29 Common utils and configs for power ii radeontool 1.5-5 utility to control ATI Radeon back ii toshset 1.72-6 Access much of the Toshiba laptop ii vbetool 0.7-1.1 run real-mode video BIOS code to a ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+1 X server utilities acpi-support recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
