Hi, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote (09 Oct 2012 14:51:09 GMT) : > #684241: hdparm: on battery, the drive spins down too often, even when > standby is off > It has been closed by Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org>.
> * Taken from Ubuntu: > Set spindown policy back to -B128 instead of -B127. Too many drives > misbehave too badly with this setting, possibly leading to drive failure. > We should revisit this once we understand why people's drives are spinning > back *up* so frequently (closes: #684241) Given this has the potential to kill hardware faster than desired, shouldn't this be set to RC severity and fixed in Wheezy too? This change has been in Ubuntu Precise since 10 months, and in unstable since October, without obvious signs of regressions that I could spot, so IMHO it looks safe enough for a t-p-u pre-approval request. What do you think? Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
