laptop hard disk etiquette

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:59:18AM -0400, Warren Togami 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.

The settings we use are those set by the firmware or the preboot environment
we don't force them and its not our business to do so as far as I can see.