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Title: Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop`s Hard Drive
Post by: kim on 2007.10.31, 23:12:29
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15065/79/ (http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15065/79/)
QuotePosted by Administrator - Tuesday, 30 October 2007



wwrmn. .. .

Curious about this article mentioning that the Ubuntu acpi bug shorten the lifespan for hard drives; what is the code base for the acpi code used in eCS and could this be an issue as well for eCS?
Title: Re: Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop`s Hard Drive
Post by: RobertM on 2007.11.01, 01:47:41
I read through the article, and a lot of commentary on Slashdot, and what it turns out to be is unrelated to the OS.

That means it MAY affect eCS. Certain hard drive manufacturers have been including the wrong values to handle suspend mode which makes the disk cycle waaay too many times. Ubuntu (and other OS'es) query the drive for the recommended parameters and use them (which will shorten the drive's longevity), while others like Windows (depending on what version, fixpack, driver, etc) will ignore the drive's suggested parameters and deal with the stuff itself.

So, the short answer is, I dont know. How does eCS handle drive power management?
Title: Re: Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop`s Hard Drive
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2007.11.01, 08:19:20
Glad my craptop doesnt support ACPI :)
Title: Re: Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop`s Hard Drive
Post by: kim on 2007.11.01, 09:37:48
Well, since eCS v2.0 has ACPI (http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14997/2/) features, so same question as you then - how is it implemented?
Title: Re: Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop`s Hard Drive
Post by: Terry on 2007.11.01, 17:04:55
In LinuxToday's Blog, "Top 10 Reasons Not to Use Ubuntu," they forgot to mention the suspend mode hard drive code.  By the way, the blog after the blog is better than the blog itself.

http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/071031-103438.html (http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/071031-103438.html)