Hi, you can try to disable power management for it:
"atactl /dev/wd0c accousticdisable", or "apmdisable", or "apmset 253" (man atactl) kind regards, Robert On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:40:39 +0200 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin > down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type > "ls" or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a > continuous spin-up spin down. This happens when running on mains (the > battery is dead anyway). > > Are there settings about this? Or is it all coming from the BIOS where I > don't see such settings (the older IBM BIOSes were very simple). > > What I find wrong is the very short time to spin down again, something > like 10-15 seconds! > > Riccardo
