On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Roman Kyrylych > <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > What ever happened to this issue? I've been trying to follow it, but > got lost with other things. Do we have storage-fixup anywhere? Is > there a wiki page on this info? > Paul has added storage-fixup to extra. I think that nothing else has been done.
