lelaurent
June 14th, 2010, 01:20 PM
Hello everybody, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.4 on my brand new Eee PC 1005P.
Thankfully, I quickly (after only about 6 hours of battery use and 2000 Spindowns) noticed that Ubuntu was killing my harddrive by idiotic power management settings. I have not yet been able to figure out where the evil settings are stored that set
hdparm -B 128 /dev/sda
on EVERY wakeup and boot (!)
I traced the evil configuration to /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/95-hdparm-apm which apparently was written with the problem in mind, but still ignorant of it:
#On battery we set hdparm -B 128, because the head parking is # very useful for shock protection. No it is not! I edited the file to only invoke hdparm -B255, but to no avail! Because Laptop-Mode seems to be enabled!
Questions:
1) How to tell laptop-mode tools not to issue the evil idiotic command? -OR- how to permanently disable harddrive powersaving without laptop-mode installed?
2) This is braindead. After a default install, the harddrive is still killed slowly. This bug is from 2007. Why are the developers ignorant of it? It nearly amounts to malicious injury of the user's property and destroys any confidence I had in Ubuntu.
Thankfully, I quickly (after only about 6 hours of battery use and 2000 Spindowns) noticed that Ubuntu was killing my harddrive by idiotic power management settings. I have not yet been able to figure out where the evil settings are stored that set
hdparm -B 128 /dev/sda
on EVERY wakeup and boot (!)
I traced the evil configuration to /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/95-hdparm-apm which apparently was written with the problem in mind, but still ignorant of it:
#On battery we set hdparm -B 128, because the head parking is # very useful for shock protection. No it is not! I edited the file to only invoke hdparm -B255, but to no avail! Because Laptop-Mode seems to be enabled!
Questions:
1) How to tell laptop-mode tools not to issue the evil idiotic command? -OR- how to permanently disable harddrive powersaving without laptop-mode installed?
2) This is braindead. After a default install, the harddrive is still killed slowly. This bug is from 2007. Why are the developers ignorant of it? It nearly amounts to malicious injury of the user's property and destroys any confidence I had in Ubuntu.