Op zaterdag 28-06-2008 om 15:22 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Forest
Bond:
> I agree that it's reasonable to assume that users who go messing with /etc/*
> should be expected to know what they're doing. However, just because advanced
> users can debug these kinds of problems doesn't mean that they
Hi Sebastian,
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 09:00:05PM +0200, Sebastian Breier wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond:
> > Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM
> > settings
> > (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some pretty aggressive settings th
Am 28.06.2008 um 20:21 schrieb Forest Bond:
> In the end, it was proclaimed that the problem is not Ubuntu's
> fault, since the
> only software mechanism that sets overly aggressive APM settings
> for hard drives
> is laptop-mode, which is disabled by default.
Consequently, laptop mode should
Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond:
> Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM
> settings
> (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some pretty aggressive settings that can, in fact,
> lead to people's hard drives dying early. Users that think they are s
Hi,
Nearly everyone has probably heard of the "Ubuntu destroyed my hard drive"
controversy, which made headlines all over the Internet with stories such as
these:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+load_cycle_count&btnG=Search
In the end, it was proclaimed that the problem is not Ubuntu
