Hello Hans,
I've just upgraded a G50-30 and like Christian, I can not reproduce the
issue. I logged into MATE and GNOME, played with the brightness settings
while plugged in and on battery, it did not hang.
# cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy
med_power_with_dipm
med_power_with_dipm
SMART data:
Model Family: Seagate FireCuda 2.5
Device Model: ST1000LX015-1U7172
Serial Number:
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0acde0e96
Firmware Version: SDM1
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Apr 29 20:48:35 2018 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
I hope that helps,
Alex