Maybe atactl can help. 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
