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| From | wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux |
| Date | 2013-03-26 18:28 +0000 |
| Organization | Public Access Networks Corp. |
| Message-ID | <kispd1$dhs$1@reader2.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <4d535e2f-4491-4c82-aea1-c379ab6845c9@googlegroups.com> <0b078ac3-bcc3-4033-af05-fd6f53096d88@googlegroups.com> <kisevc$m12$1@reader2.panix.com> <66b090bc-56d3-4ace-9dd3-7301ec9d82c9@googlegroups.com> |
In article <66b090bc-56d3-4ace-9dd3-7301ec9d82c9@googlegroups.com>, Don Juan <linuzfailed@gmail.com> wrote: > >Ok, thanks, but I'm worried primarily about this issue: >https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues#Drives_which_perform_frequent_head_unloads_under_Linux > Seems pretty much a non-issue. It's not because of Linux (you're just reading about it on a kernel forum :-), but because of a buggy interaction between certain laptop IDE drives and power management. It seems to depend on the installation platform as well as the particular drive since manifestation is dependent on IO patterns. The issue here with WD is that WD chooses to require their own special program to reset APM parameters on a few models (I'm not sure you can use hdparm on their "Green" drives). That could be seen as "incompatibility" but it's really WD's choice to support only Windows. That's a good reason to avoid WD. If you end up with a set of hardware that manifests this bug it's not really a big deal, and can be worked around easily with hdparm. Frankly, you can avoid all these kinds of things by using last generation hardware for Linux. Older stuff is well supported and Linux doesn't need the latest hardware to run rings around Windows systems.
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2,5" hdd laptop & Linux Don Juan <linuzfailed@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 09:07 -0700
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-23 15:06 +0000
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2013-03-23 07:45 +0400
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux Don Juan <linuzfailed@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 02:34 -0700
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-26 15:30 +0000
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux Don Juan <linuzfailed@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 10:08 -0700
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-26 18:28 +0000
Re: 2,5" hdd laptop & Linux Don Juan <linuzfailed@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 13:46 -0700
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