On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:32:02 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I wonder if there is an utility for disturbing (writting a byte every N > seconds in order to stop it move its head to a landing zone) a mounted > HDD until it is unmounted? > > If not, then, how I can find out what is PID (being ran from a bash > script) of the back grounded process (I think to accomplish it w/ the > help of watch and echo a byte to the drive) in order I may kill it on > un-mounting the drive?
Is disabling hard disk power management features not working for you? You may also want to check out "hdaparm" options :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.30.17.29...@gmail.com
