[PLUG] Caution on RHEL 6 on Laptops

MJang mike at linuxexam.com
Tue Jan 11 00:32:15 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:41 -0800, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:20, MJang <mike at linuxexam.com> wrote:
> 
> > I know a number of people here run RHEL (or rebuilds such as CentOS) on
> > their systems -- wanted to share a problem I've apparently had on my
> > T410 / 500G hard drive since I installed RHEL 6. I reported it at
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667485
> >
> > Bottom line, I think a default RHEL 6 setting caused my hard drive to
> > fail in less than 2 months
> 
> Well, it didn't override the defaults set by the drive manufacturer,
> which in turn led to that: at best, a failure to act on a stupid
> default by RH, rather than something they actively did.
> 
> The real blame sits with the hard disk or laptop BIOS vendor, and I
> mention this because it is highly likely that you will encounter the
> same situation regardless of which distribution you are using.

Fair enough. 

However, as I documented in the bug report, Ubuntu dealt with this issue
a couple of years ago, I think using hdparm -B 200 to override such
default settings. Thus the question -- should Red Hat have dealt with
this too, or is it appropriate for them to be more "hands off" (than
Ubuntu) w/r/t relatively common hardware components.

Thanks,
Mike




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