You may remember I had some issues on my Dell Vostro 1500 with a scary sounding periodic hard disk ‘click’, related to a bug in the pm-utils package. In brief: this bug effectively puts the disk into powersaving mode far too often, drastically reducing it’s working lifespan.
Well, good news … it looks like the hard disk ACPI bug has been fixed, and will make it’s way into the Ubuntu 9.04, 8.10 and 8.04 repositories soon.
Hooray happyday .. no more monkeypatching !
Did this really get resolved?!
I’ve been running the last LTS version (8.10), waiting… hoping I wouldn’t have to fix it again!
Last time I used this advice, and it worked:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=331418&highlight=harddrive&page=10
If this is a thing of the past, I’m going to 10.04 right away!
Thanks for sharing the info!