laptop hard disk etiquette

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 10/26/2007 11:26 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> 1) Power off completely.
>>> 2) Boot up.
>>> 3) Run `hdparm -I /dev/sda` and see "Advanced power management level:"
>>>
>>> What default value does your firmware or BIOS have?  notting's drive 
>>> defaulted to 128.
>> Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x8080)
> 
> Same here. ST980813AS in a Dell Latitude D630, rawhide.
> 

Yep, same with Seagate ST9160821AS.

Is yours SATA too?