Package: hdparm Version: 9.39-1+b1 Severity: important Since quite recently, the hard drive of my laptop spins down too often when on battery: about after 20 seconds - 30 seconds, then it usually spins up again after a few seconds (sometimes less than 1 second). So, these spin-downs are completely useless, make the system a bit slower (when waiting for spin-up), and would probably lower the lifetime of the drive.
I can see 2 solutions: 1. Detect this automatically. However it seems that the system cannot do that. 2. Disable spindown via some option. This is what I did, but without any effect! I first tried putting "spindown_time = 0" in /etc/hdparm.conf, then ran "/etc/init.d/hdparm restart" (not sure whether this is useful). But the drive still spins down. I've written a script to see the options: #!/bin/sh . /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions hdparm_options /dev/sda and it outputs "-B254 -q -S0" when on AC power, and "-B127 -q -S0" when on battery, as expected (from /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions). Then I ran directly: # hdparm -B127 -S0 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x7f (127) setting standby to 0 (off) APM_level = 127 but the drive still spins down. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages hdparm depends on: ii libc6 2.13-35 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 Versions of packages hdparm recommends: ii powermgmt-base 1.31 Versions of packages hdparm suggests: ii apmd 3.2.2-14 -- Configuration Files: /etc/hdparm.conf changed: quiet spindown_time = 0 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
