Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

[Alan Cox]

> 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.