[plug] Ubuntu killed my drive!

[Paul Antoine]

This is not an issue on desktops and I'm uncertain as to whether it's an 
issue for laptops any more since the release of 8.04.

Regardless there is a simple command to alter the behaviour to stop it 
from being an issue on laptops.

P.

sothisistheinternet wrote:
> As someone who is about to have a go with Ubuntu, is this a common problem?
> 
> *worried look*
> 
> Ari
> 
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Paul Antoine <paul at milleng.com.au> wrote:
>> Sorry to hear that Brad.  My circa 1998 Vaio has had at least 3 hard drives
>> - its thin design seems to kill them fast due to heat buildup.  Of course
>> the head load/unload issue doesn't help :-)
>>
>> P.
>>
>> Brad Campbell wrote:
>>> Well, probably contributed anyway.
>>>
>>> My little Vaio had a major hard disk failure after roughly 2 years of
>>> faithful service.
>>> It was a general mechanical wear type of failure as the old freezer
>>> allowed me to recover all of the data perfectly well, but at room
>>> temperature it was just a "clickety click"..
>>>
>>> A quick post-mortem revealed over 1,200,000 head load/unload cycles where
>>> the drive is rated to about 600,000.
>>>
>>> Drive duly replaced, I'll be implementing some of the recommended
>>> workarounds listed in the various Ubuntu forums for overzealous power saving
>>> modes for hard disks..
>>> Example :
>>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/81
>>>
>>> <grumble>..
>>>
>>> Brad
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