Comments on: Is Ubuntu killing harddrives with extremely frequent load cycles? http://hobbylobby.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/is-ubuntu-killing-harddrives-with-extremely-frequent-load-cycles/ |hobby|vb.net|toys|ubuntu|comics|LPs|programming| Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:31:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ubuntu http://hobbylobby.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/is-ubuntu-killing-harddrives-with-extremely-frequent-load-cycles/#comment-2393 Ubuntu Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:51:37 +0000 http://hobbylobby.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/is-ubuntu-killing-harddrives-with-extremely-frequent-load-cycles/#comment-2393 Although the bug report has been marked “fixed” due to a hack in acpi-support that forces it to a more safe mode, now the hard drives are running way too hot and some people are still having problems. Canonical really needs to publish something clearly specifying who’s at fault and what Canonical is going to do about it. If the hard drive manufacturers or BIOS manufacturers can’t or won’t fix it, then Canonical needs to produce workarounds for it. I don't care whose fault it is; a flaw that destroys user’s hardware in Ubuntu but not in Windows is unacceptable. Although the bug report has been marked “fixed” due to a hack in acpi-support that forces it to a more safe mode, now the hard drives are running way too hot and some people are still having problems.

Canonical really needs to publish something clearly specifying who’s at fault and what Canonical is going to do about it. If the hard drive manufacturers or BIOS manufacturers can’t or won’t fix it, then Canonical needs to produce workarounds for it.

I don’t care whose fault it is; a flaw that destroys user’s hardware in Ubuntu but not in Windows is unacceptable.

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