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  1. Bug #548513
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 548513

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 548513] Re: Some firewire & usb disks not working under 10.04

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:11:27PM -0000, Jerone Young wrote:
> This would only solve the problem for firewire drives(?) or at
> lest just Western digital.

Why just Western Digital? There's nothing WD-specific here.

> Also as mentioned APM is not the only issue .. just one of many.

As also mentioned, APM is the only one that's configured on by default
(for other excellent reasons - there was an EXTREMELY long bug about
this a while back). I think it's not unreasonable to assume that
explicit user configuration should override our WAGs?

> Peter is doing a great job getting closer to the root causes.

Peter seems to agree with my approach, so I'm going to go with this for
now. This does not at all preclude further root-cause work, of course.