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It is NOT the user's fault!It is NOT the user's fault!Posted Nov 11, 2007 14:44 UTC (Sun) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778)In reply to: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu by hmh Parent article: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu
You asked the drive to enter the most agressive power management mode. I did no such thing. I had not touched any hard drive settings in the BIOS or OS until my cycle count was over a million. Linux came pre-installed on this computer, so my role is pure "user". Let's be very clear that the user is the innocent victim here. Any posting that blames the user is quite unfair. The responsibility to avoid this problem may lie with the drive manufacturer, the laptop manufacturer, whoever installed Linux on the laptop, or even with the distro (although that does not appear to be the case). But definitely not with the end-user, who just turned on the laptop and expected it to work. I don't remember any of the online suggestions for mitigating this problem having mentioned checking BIOS settings to see if the power management can be made less aggressive. The article above certainly didn't. I'll try that next time I reboot. Kevin
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It is NOT the user's fault! Posted Nov 11, 2007 14:58 UTC (Sun) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link] I hate english. Anyway, I wanted to use "you" in the PoV of the HD. I didn't mean "you, the human". I very much doubt any user would want the most aggressive power management mode of the hardware enabled by default. It is annoying, it kills the hardware that much faster, and it introduces a lot of latencies. On the other hand, it is extremely useful when you know what you are doing, and enable it on purpose... This, of course, makes the whole deal of enabling it by default (done by whomever: distro or platform vendor), worse.
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