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(Get the code!)
Also, "it's fixed in the unreleased next version of Ubuntu" doesn't help when my hardware is being damaged by the current version.
I didn't ever intend to upgrade to 9.10, though, and I'm sure the same is true of the majority of Ubuntu users.
This bug has cost some people hundreds of dollars. It would have done the same to me if I weren't the sort of nerd who would know why the hard drive is kerchunking every few minutes and what sort of place to look to find a fix. Most would assume that their hardware is broken.
I could write my own wrapper script, but that would be a silly waste of time when you obviously already have one (see post #1). Please provide that script or provide information on where the 9.04 version of Ubuntu calls hdparm that is not listed in #3. I grepped the whole darn drive for it and I don't see it. Something is resetting the APM mode to something other than 254 and/or resetting the spindown timeout to a REALLY low number while on battery.
You really ought to release a fix for 9.04 ASAP if this fix does apply to the situation I am experiencing. There are a good many of this notebook running UNR out there, as it's sold with it.
Do it for all the people whose hard drives you can avoid breaking because of it.