In my very humble opinion we can attack/dissect the bug in the following way.
hardware/manufacturers part : * harddrive firmware should use sane defaults for power management * the BIOS shouldn’t set the amount of power management of your harddrive * harddrives shouldn’t die within one year even if you have enabled aggressive power management settings software part : * aggressive power management settings (if set by your harddrive’s firmware or your BIOS) should be detected and overridden by Ubuntu * laptop-mode should be less aggressive about power management (in the meantime you shouldn’t enable it) * if the hdparm service is enabled then hdparm should load the settings from /etc/hdparm.conf after resuming frome suspend-to-ram and hibernate-to-disk and after attaching ac (instead of users having to add small scripts to /etc/acpi/resume.d and such places) * the top causes for hard drive wake up/spin up should be found * the top causes for hard drive unparking should be found * maybe (laptop) harddrives should be mounted with noatime by default * smartmontools should be installed on default. smartd should run on default with sane settings hooking into a notifier to notify users (if the Load_Cycle_Count is increased with more than 90 cycles within 24 hours) (if smartctl thinks your harddrive assess your harddrive as not healthy) (if more than X errors where found during the last self-test) Regarding smartd hooking into a notifier I found the following wiki pages with similar ideas : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/SMARTMonitoring https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiskMonitoring -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
