2009/10/19 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>:
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 02:54 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
Anyone else has some opinion about how to handle this?
I'd like to affirm the opinions of Roman and Xavier and take some action on this.
Thanks for picking up this topic!
Anyone object to my putting storage-fixup in [extra] at least? If no objections by W 9/21, I plan to go ahead with that step. If it works out, we can talk about follow-up steps like:
1) moving it to [core] 2) integrating it into default rc.d scripts
It's a pretty serious issue for laptop users with affected drives. And the drives are pretty popular ones, methinks.
No objections, it seems, go for it!
Also note that, when raising awerness about this issue, the fixup ussually needs to be run on resume from disk (and I think resume from ram) too. Not only on boot.
Good point!
Isn't all this handled simply by getting laptop-mode to do it? Its possible to allow laptop-mode to control hdparm settings, after all.
IIRC laptop-mode-tools can fix this if configured correctly, but this is not the right solution IMO.
Besides, this is mainly (exclusively?) a problem for laptop hard discs.
I'm not sure if this is a (common enough) problem for 3.5" (non-laptop) HDDs, but it's worth noting that 2.5" (AKA "laptop") HDDs are used not only in laptops: Mini-ITX boxes, NAS boxes, HDTV players, even some servers - all have 2.5" HDDs quite often. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)