On Donnerstag 29 Juli 2010, Mick wrote: > The title may not make immediately sense, but this is what I have observed. > > I switched to CONFIG_ATA_SFF instead of the deprecated CONFIG_IDE. Up > until that point I had passed -M 128 to hdparm once and my drive retained > the settings between reboots and kept quiet. > > With the new kernel I noticed that KDE-4.4.4 switches it back to -M 254 and > becomes noisy as KDE kicks in (when the system settings symbol comes up > during login). > > I tried adding hdparm in the default runlevel and also added: > > sda_arg="-M 128" > > in /etc/conf.d/hdparm but it doesn't seem to work. KDE resets it to full > pelt. > > Is there a fix to this?
KDE doesn't do that. It can't.
