Package: hdparm Version: 9.32-1 Severity: important After installing Debian, I noticed that my HDD would spin up and down much more often than before (I used Kubuntu 10.10 previously). The Load_Cycle_Count as reported my smartctl started to skyrocket, i.e. go up by 30 to 80 per hour. Some research showed that Ubuntu has had the same issue [1] and they changed hdparm to set apm (the -B option) to a reasonable value of above 200 when the PC is not in battery mode and introduce an "apm_battery" option in /etc/hdparm.conf. Something like this should be done here, too (which also required to properly integrate hdparm into power management - currently it seems to support apmd only which is not even enabled for Debian's kernels) - or maybe there are better solutions. The current settings have a negative effect on disc life-time, so it is IMHO quite important to deal with the problem. Sorry if the priority setting is inappropriate.
[1] https://chhamanator.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/harddisk-problem-in-ubuntu/ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages hdparm depends on: ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip hdparm recommends no packages. Versions of packages hdparm suggests: pn apmd <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/hdparm.conf changed: quiet apm = 150 spindown_time = 30m /dev/sda { } -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
