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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 59695

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Gilles Schintgen (shigi) wrote : Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

Please increase the importance of this issue. I'm really concerned about my disk's health.

I was noticing some clicking but didn't think much about it since I "fixed" this issue a long time ago. Only now it occurred to me that maybe some update overwrote my changes.

Unfortunately this seems to be the case. Here's the current stats from my disk (the thinkpad is from august 2006!):
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7143426

Over 7 MILLION retracts! I'm wondering how long it will hold. I just find it curious that "value" is still at "100" whereas the threshold (for failure) is "000".