2009/10/19 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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)
