Ubuntu apparently made a small mistake on laptop ACPI settings for hard-disks which might severely shorten the lifetime of the hard-drive, and here is what a truly brilliant journalist over at the inquirer
decided to write:
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According to one bod on Slashdot it can be done by doing the following:
Make a file named "99-hdd-spin-fix.sh".
In the file write the following lines:
#!/bin/sh and hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda. Save the file to three locations, /etc/acpi/suspend.d/, /etc/acpi/resume.d/ and /etc/acpi/start.d/.
Then you should be ok, he thinks. µ
Great journalism, That guy really deserves the pullitzer price for this article. All he is trying to do is to highlight the potential complexity of an operating system while criticising the community-type support of free and open source software.
He could have mentionned that ths will probably be amended in an update, but he didn't.
That was my rant for the day .... so far.
