Hi Steve, I'll try and give it a shot (not tonight) ; however, in 15+ years of intensive daily Linux use, I am yet to see any Linux machine (in use) that can keep its disk spinned down for more than a minute, unless using the laptop-mode tools and appropriate FS and write-cache settings, which are not so easy to finely tune, and very specific to some netbook uses.
That's probably why "128" was the default value so far. I strongly believe that allowing disk spindown will never result in actual energy savings, *but* it may and will result in a much shortened HD life. One who wants max energy savings has better go for "suspend" mode after a short inactivity period (let's says 5 or 10 minutes) rather than playing with HD spindown. it's a nonsense for any modern multitasking OS with crons and other tasks schedulers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952556 Title: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/952556/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
