Ubuntu Wonderful?
Ubuntu Wonderful?
Posted Mar 26, 2008 19:18 UTC (Wed) by Cato (guest, #7643)In reply to: Ubuntu Wonderful? by Cato
Parent article: First look at Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta (ZDNet)
Having read more of that bug report re excessive HD load/unload cycles - the fix(es) are complex, as I thought, and probably involve (some) hard drive firmware versions and also some Linux/Ubuntu code. There is no consistent story on this - e.g. some people say that Windows XP has this bug, other say that it doesn't. Most likely there are multiple factors causing the unwanted hard drive behaviour. In any case there are clear workarounds using hdparm, and suitable scripts for ACPI wakeup etc, and some people are reporting that Hardy has fixed this problem on systems that had the problem with Gutsy.