Marking it as confirmed again: a long test on my netbook shows that this workaround works fine for me. For others as well, it seems. The conclusion must be, that hdparm in Lucid is flawed and can easily be replaced by the newer hdparm currently in Debian Squeeze.
I'm not a developer, so I can't get this fix into the updates. So far, no developer has appeared in this thread. Hopefully one of them will react.... ** Changed in: hdparm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- [Lucid] hdparm.conf change doesn't have effect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568120 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs