Re: laptop hard disk etiquette

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen redhat com>]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> There is a bit of buzz at the moment about
> ubuntu affecting laptop hard drives reliability:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

FWIW, my OSX laptop hard drive, less than a year old, shows > 600k.
It's *cough* never run linux.

I've asked someone I know at seagate to see if they might be willing to
comment on this, perhaps this is a misinterpretation of the smart data
and/or the specsheet?

-Eric