Comment 3 for bug 438355

I am still experiencing the problem, despite being up to date. My HDD is spinning down every few SECONDS. I changed the /etc/acpi/*.d/90-hdparm.sh files to read 254 on battery line as well, but that didn't fix it. I also tried removing the spin-down setting in /etc/apm/event.d/20hdparm and/or setting it to 0 or 300 or 100, but the hard drive still spins down just as often. I have verified laptop mode is off. I have even tried purging the laptop mode package. WHAT IS TURNING ON SPIN DOWN AND SETTING SUCH A LOW TIMER? I've turned off everything I can find, but it still happens on battery and to a lesser extent

I have an HP Mini 1033 notebook. These hard drives are speced for 100,000 spindowns, and this has wasted 10,000 of them before I resorted to writing a script that just resets the hdparm setting to 254 and the spindown to 0 every 60 seconds. (Yes, 0 disables spindown on here successfully until you next set the APM mode.)

BTW, can you provide a copy of this wrapper for hdparm?

You're killing my hard drive! Please stop this so I can use ubuntu safely!