After installation of wheezy on my new Samsung laptop I found that HDD spins up and down about 3 times per minute.
This significantly slows down disk I/O (and overall system performance). As I think, some laptop users may be unable to identify problem source, ignore this bug, or switch to another OS. If problem is ignored, a disks potentially may be killed within a few months: 3 times per minute * 60 min/hour * 8 hours/day * 30 days/month => 43200 cycles per month! It is comparable with number of cycles during normal lifetime of disk. This bug makes hddparm package unusable for me (and, may be, whole OS for some users). Thus, the bug might be grave/critical if number of affected users is great. As I see, the bug was found in 2012, already fixed in hdparm version 9.42-1 (testing, unstable), but not in wheezy. So, I opened this bug again, with "wheezy" flag. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
