This one time, at band camp, Ralf Jung said: > 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.
Hello, hparm does not install any apm settings by default. Can you let me know which power management stack you're using so this can be reassigned to the right people? Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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