Dan Gilliam wrote: > It's not all Ubuntu, of course. All the other distros are showing the > same as I've hopped around a bit. I tried applying the various fixes > that I've found, but I'm not seeing any difference in the increased load > counts. Which is frustrating, because windows is obviously doing > SOMETHING to control it. Question is, what, and how, to impliment this.
I have a laptop with this problem, but I didn't notice... Why? Bit torrent and seeding distributions is an excellent patch! :) If you never leave the hard drive alone, it never parks. If you FINALLY finish loading the OS, and never wake up the hard drive, it never unparks. I think the Ubuntu problem is because we finish loading, so it can park, but wake every few seconds for random reasons and unpark. Vista, on the other hand, will be an hour finishing booting... -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 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