All 3 of my laptops are also affected. The suggested fix with "hdparm -B
180" however does not work for all harddrives. On my HITACHI_DK239A-65B
(old Notebook drive in my Thinkpad 600E) for example, it does exactly
the opposite when the laptop was set into laptop mode - it then starts
frequent harddrive access every 10 sec which are otherwise turned off
when in laptop mode. I have to turn OFF S.M.A.R.T with smartctl -s off
/dev/hda and then to start laptop-mode AND in order to stop all
unneccessary HD access.

By the way, this is my reload_cycle number for this 9 yr old harddrive, used as 
my webserver:
225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       
-       1627390049

Lovely :-) What is this numer - billions?

Seriously: I think that marking this severe issue as "Wishlist" is
inapproprate. Also, not issuing a public warning reminds me to the
behaviour of a software company based in Redmond, USA and is not nice to
to all Ubuntu supporters who trust Canonical and the developers. Ubuntu
is not perfect, but we have nothing to hide, even if a bug like this
could cause bad press.

>From the Ubuntu Code of Conduct:
Be considerate. Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will 
depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and 
colleagues, and we expect you to take those consequences into account when 
making decisions.

Ty for your consideration.

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default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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