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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #454

Comment 454 for bug 59695

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Brian Ealdwine (eode) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:40 +0000, unggnu wrote:
> I don't think this is a general Linux problem. I had this under Windows XP too.

I don't care whose problem it is -- if we can do something about it, we
should. ..at the very least we should expose users to it and allow them
to choose, in a simple fashion, which they want. It could even be
something that's monitored, and checked against a hw db, or just checked
once every hour / every two hours, and notifies the user if there's
significant load cycle increase. In hardy, (not for all cases, but for
many, and probably most) it's as simple as installing two small files
in /etc/pm.

> I don't see the problem and it doesn't seem to kill the hard disk so fast otherwise
[snip!]

I lost two disks to this early on.

-Brian