[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Ryan Waldroop]

Daniel Hahler  wrote on 2008-04-14:
>>For your information, bug 89269 has just been fixed for Hardy, 
>>which did not call hdparm on any of the devices, when (de)activating laptop mode.
>>
>>This may actually interfere with any workarounds you have put in place, so please 
>>report regressions at bug 89269 (for email users: https://launchpad.net/bugs/89269)

This still does not appear to be fixed.  Maybe it's gotten a little better, but my laptop
Hard Drive is still parking at least sever times a minute while plugged into AC.

Actually, it's probably more annoying now, because I've been using the posted fixes
for several months and haven't heard that annoying clicking for a while. :)

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
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