I can not believe that it is normal for a basic, non-enterprise disk to overheat, not even when it is permanently used. If disabling power management causes any other issue than decreased battery life by max. 5%, then this is obviously some disk/firmware related bug.
This is why I guess the blacklist approach mentioned by Jakob (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi- support/+bug/59695/comments/515) is more straightforward. -- 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
