I recommend using the following page for hardy: http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management
It does not turn off power management, but in turn it will put it on 254 when on power and higher (click every 20 minutes) when on battery. Here are my script for /etc/pm/config.d ** Attachment added: "Put this in /etc/pm/config.d" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12727729/disk -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
