Ubuntu is NOT causing aggressive power management

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Oct 31, 2007 7:05 AM
By Ubuntu Daemon
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Ubuntu is NOT causing aggressive power management settings! I’m afraid that quite some people are getting a high Load_Cycle_Count because their laptop (BIOS or harddrive firmware) uses too aggressive powermanagement. These aggressive power management settings are set by your BIOS or harddrive firmware. Windows and/or Mac OS X might be overriding these settings which might make Ubuntu look bad if Ubuntu doesn’t override these settings.

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