I am reopening this because: 1. My harddrive has already been cooked by this bug and I'll probably have to buy a new one. I set up an upstart script to run the hdparm command, but it seems to need it run more often than at just startup. Check it out:
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 107677 2. Its unreasonable to expect a typical user to run hdparm and set up this workaround. 3. Thinkpad is one of the few laptops on which Linux in general and Ubuntu specifically actually works. 4. It's driving away users, see above. Here are my drive details: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi/HGST Travelstar Z7K500 Device Model: HGST HTS725050A7E630 Serial Number: TF755AWHJ62PXM LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 77fdef365 Firmware Version: GH2ZB550 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Tue Jul 29 21:15:30 2014 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316284 Title: [HP Probook 4540s] Load/Unload Cycle Count To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1316284/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
