[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2007-12-14 Thread donzilluh
I realized the result it returned "9" was not my uptime hours. Tired noob mistake. I am just curious if my problem should be fixed completely by adding the 99-hdd-spindown-fix.sh to the 3 directories and altering the laptop-mode config to CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=1 and also APMD_SPINDOWN=90 in the *oth

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2007-12-13 Thread donzilluh
My laptop was showing these symptoms. It's a HP DV6645us bought only 2 months ago on Oct 10th. I just recently installed Ubuntu and stumbled upon this article with only 9 hours of uptime. So I feel as I have lucked out. This is a very harmful bug though and needs to be incorporated into the automat