Re: Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

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• Subject: Re: Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?
• From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:01:52 +0000
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> It wasn't clear to me if the action described
> is actually restricted to Ubuntu,
> or is common to all Linux distributions.
> 
> Does it in fact affect Fedora?

Fedora does not touch those drive settings anywhere that I can find, and
the kernel certainly does not. So we use the defaults set by either the
BIOS or the drive when it powers up.

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