ubuntu may be killing your laptop's hard drive (bug #59695)

[Jwalanta Shrestha]

hi all,

if u r using ubuntu (or may any distro) on laptop, it may be killing the hard drive.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

this issue was also mentioned in slashdot and digg some time back; didn't pay much attention but it was infact grinding my hdd..

the fix is in the bug page itself, but if ur eyes hurt it's here too.. http://blog.lynxworks.eu/?p=34

regards,
jwalanta.

ps: thanx prasanna 4 reminding me of this..