Comment 296 for bug 59695

Brian,

I do agree with you... it seems that hdparm has no effect on my HD APM settings.

To answer your questions, I think I'm using well hdparm -- I fixed the click problem of a friend computer by this way -- and the Samsung tool is working (I used 2 differents version, both on bootable CD's).

So your advice to contact hdparm team to see if they know about that issue is my best solution, as you said.

Thanks a lot for these discussions, and keep the pressure on the Ubuntu team in order to manage this problem in a better/safer way than now (and by default). Unfortunatly, I think this bug cause(d) prejudices to Ubuntu distribition, even if it is not specific to it... more and more people using Linux (and especially Ubuntu), went to this world to see "the other side" with "windows skills" and do not want to spend time with the many hand settings to do in their computer (it is not my case ;) ): they just want a "ready to use solution without configuration". And it was a goal of Ubuntu : attrack more people from other OS to Linux world, showing them it is a serious option ! They may be disapointed by such big problem and "never" come back to Linux !

Mathieu