laptop hard disk etiquette

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 15:18:52 UTC 2007


Pádraig Brady wrote:
> There is a bit of buzz at the moment about
> ubuntu affecting laptop hard drives reliability:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

FWIW, my OSX laptop hard drive, less than a year old, shows > 600k.
It's *cough* never run linux.

I've asked someone I know at seagate to see if they might be willing to
comment on this, perhaps this is a misinterpretation of the smart data
and/or the specsheet?

-Eric




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