Ubuntu
hdparm package

  1. Bug #952556
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 952556

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:42:09AM -0000, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
> root@tethys:/etc# hdparm -B 127 /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x7f (127)
> APM_level = 127

> root@tethys:/etc# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "power management level"
> Advanced power management level: 127

Ok, thanks for checking. It may still be worth fixing the code to check
that the apm setting has taken, but that evidently won't be enough to solve
this problem for everyone.