Re: My HD's never spin down...

2000-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the disk will only spin down if nothing is reading/writing to it, run procinfo to check read/writes, and see if it is increasing when the drive spins up, chances are there are programs that need the disk so the disk spins back up. i always keep my drives spun up 100% of the time, back in '95 i los

My HD's never spin down...

2000-05-21 Thread Högman
Well, I guess that the subject says it all. My primary rootdisc, /dev/hda, goes on and on. Quite frankly, the noise is getting to me. Is there any way to silence it? Running on a Woody system, XFree 3.3.6, Kernel 2.2.14 I also tried running hdparm -Y /dev/hda : result - the drive spun down, just

My HD's never spin down...

2000-05-21 Thread Högman
Well, I guess that the subject says it all. My primary rootdisc, /dev/hda, goes on and on. Quite frankly, the noise is getting to me. Is there any way to silence it? Running on a Woody system, XFree 3.3.6, Kernel 2.2.14 I also tried running hdparm -Y /dev/hda : result - the drive spun down, just