bug in ubuntu "kill" hardrive

[Derek Broughton]

David Vincent wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> That workaround is not _simple_.  It's a pain in the butt, for
>> potentially
>> little gain.  It takes far more than a "competent" user to know whether
>> it is safer to disable the head retraction or to put up with some
>> increased heat in the drive. While it should have been obvious that it
>> isn't Ubuntu-specific, I'd be surprised if there are very many people
>> who've read
>> the entire bug report.  It goes on and on and on, and the Ubuntu devs
>> don't seem to care much and _nobody_ knows how serious it really is.
> 
> that last bit is true.  as for the first bit it took me five minutes to
> implement the fix when i followed the instructions.  in my opinion
> that's an easy fix.

It's easy to do - but is it safe?  I'm not convinced and not willing to take
the risk of installing that script (on the grounds that I really don't
think it's going to kill the drive before I upgrade my system).  Then of
course, there's the matter of _where_ to put it.  Someone (Nils?) suggested
rc.local - that's fine for a desktop, but useless for a laptop that gets
hibernated/resumed.  There are iirc 3 different suggestions in the bug
report.  
-- 
derek