the disk will only spin down if nothing is reading/writing to it, run procinfo to check read/writes, and see if it is increasing when the drive spins up, chances are there are programs that need the disk so the disk spins back up. i always keep my drives spun up 100% of the time, back in '95 i lost 4 drives in 6 months due to advanced power management(all brand new drives) ever since i rather keep em all up (and my comp's fans are 3x louder then the drives anyways :) )
nate On 21 May 2000, Martin H?gman wrote: gorkij >Well, I guess that the subject says it all. My primary rootdisc, gorkij >/dev/hda, goes on and on. Quite frankly, the noise is getting to me. Is gorkij >there any way to silence it? gorkij > gorkij >Running on a Woody system, XFree 3.3.6, Kernel 2.2.14 gorkij > gorkij >I also tried running hdparm -Y /dev/hda : result - the drive spun down, gorkij >just to jump back up in two seconds... gorkij > gorkij >-- gorkij >::[ martin h?gman ]::[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]:: gorkij > gorkij > gorkij >-- gorkij >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null gorkij > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:41pm up 2 days, 23:23, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
