Comment 824 for bug 59695

Bug confirmed un a Toshiba Satellite A210-FS3

I coded the following script. Do not use without checking if the HD temperature
is not going too high. Here is the script that you can activate through
/etc/rc.d/rc.local :

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#! /bin/bash
#Utility that checks whether the APM level is at 254 if not, reset it there.

SLEEP="120"

while [ true ] ; do

STATE=`hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "Advan" | sed "s/.* \([0-9][0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/"`
ASTATE=`echo ${STATE:0:3}`

     if [[ $ASTATE != "254" ]] ; then
           hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda
     fi

sleep ${SLEEP}s
done

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It is useful since each time it comes back from suspend or hibernate the value
is set back at 128 so having such a script reset it back to 254 which prevents
the Load_Cycle_Count problem as noted above.

Hope this help.

Eric