Comment 585 for bug 59695

I agree with erythrocyte, a clear official statement need to be made on this subject. Such an important issue which may damage hardware, needs to be fixed quickly. More so if we take in consideration that Canonical wants Dell to put Ubuntu on its computers. How is Dell supposed to do such a thing knowing that Ubuntu will damage the hardware? This bug should be very high priority as it affects a whole range of notebooks. It should have been fixed for Hardy already, but even in Intrepid it is still there.

In Hardy I set ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true /etc/default/acpi-support and CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=1 in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf and it seemed to work. After I upgraded to Intrepid and let these files be replaced by the ones coming from the upgrade, I still have this problem. So I tweaked the above files once again. I also run the hdparm -B 254 command which stopped the hard drive making clicks.