Ocassionaly frequent load-unload cycles happens under Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1 usually when watching youtube. This happened from 10.04 and up on every ubuntu distro. 10.04 clearly tried to kill my hard drive, fortunately the never versions are less cruel :) As I know there still isn't a 100% workaround for my hdd.
I'm using a NEC Versa one laptop without ( ACPI=off ) with the hdd below: *-disk description: ATA Disk product: ST9120822AS vendor: Seagate physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 3.AL serial: 5LZ7Z1VR size: 111GiB (120GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=2bd2c32a -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 Title: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/acpi-support/+bug/59695/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs