Bug#576532: laptop-mode-tools: unsave default setting for hard drive behaviour

2010-04-05 Thread Henrik Kröger
Package: laptop-mode-tools Version: 1.45-1 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: causes non-serious data loss The standard setting of 1 for BATT_HD_POWERMGMT correspondends to aggressive power management (HDPARM(8)) and spins down the hdd too often. This can damage hdds. I ask you to put a

Bug#576532: laptop-mode-tools: unsave default setting for hard drive behaviour

2010-04-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
severity 576532 important thanks Hi, I don't see how you justify this as a grave bug. This is a feature of the HDD to save power. If you do not like it, you can change it to something saner, like you said, 127. But I think we should be good to change the default to 127. Lowering the