n 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello!
I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am
actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my
hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back to
work again. So I first thought that there must be any program accessing
the harddisk on a regular basis. So I ran lm-profiler - but nothin'.
If the drive is mounted, yeah, I'd expect to be spinning up, but if
its not mounted then I dont see a reason for it to be spinning up.
If its mounted the kernel will most probably be doing disk-caching in
ram, and will probably be randomly probing the drive for data to stick
in the cache ( Ok, tbh, i dont know a lot about the internals of disk
caching, I'm just saying its feasible ).
If its unmounted I think its feasable that the SATA HOTSWAPability
function could be tripping the sata socket to see if theres anything
still there and waking it up *shrugs*
Mostly Uneducated guesses, but suppose it gives others a starting
point to look for possibilities :)
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Kent
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