Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > what kernel are you running? the power management seems to be kind of > borked in 2.6.24 and requires some hacking to get it to funciton > reasonably. > 2.6.23-9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I > noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the > touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not > spinning down when idle (and i

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Henry
Paul Cartwright wrote: Well, if the fans are working on the laptop it should never get burning hot.  There's no reason why a laptop can't run with its drive spinning all the time (unless its on battery and you want to save the battery). I would like it to spin down not just to s

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 4 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I > > noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the > > touchpad is almost burning hot.  I suspect that the drive is not > > spinning down when idle (and it's ba

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I > noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the > touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not > spinning down when idle (and i

hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Henry
I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not spinning down when idle (and it's basically *always* idle, unless I connect from work). How can I c