I've done some investigation, and I think the hard drive "killing" bug that has been infamous lately is caused by bug 31512. See my comments there for the rationale, but essentially the problem boils down to a process writing to the disk once every 15 seconds or so (the actual interval is probably dependent on laptop model).
Configurable spindown/park intervals won't really help. If you configure it to less than the ACPID update frequency then you'll get the bug, if you configure it to more then your drive will never park or spin down. -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
