I just discovered that on my laptop and I was shocked. This bug helps to reliably destroy your had disk, thus we should fix it for edgy and also for dapper.
** Changed in: laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Critical Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed Target: None => ubuntu-6.10 ** Changed in: laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu Dapper) Importance: Undecided => Critical Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- HDD powerdown every 2 seconds in Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/29529 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs