This bug can be closed. The reason for the seemingly random spin ups was I still had a swap partition active on that drive!
All solved now. b wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: linux-image > > Hello, > > I'm running an up to date (as of today) gutsy with linux- > image-2.6.22-14-generic 2.6.22-14.52 > > The last two updates, I believe all in Feb, have resulted in a new > behaviour in my system. > > I have two ATA drives in this desktop machine, one 20GB that used to be > root, and one 200GB that has replaced it. I've moved root onto the new > drive and have left the old drive in the machine as a backup system in > case the new drive goes. > > So the drive is physically in the machine and powered, but is not in > fstab and is never mounted. > > It used to spin up on reboot and then eventually go to sleep and turn > off. > > Now with these updates after it has been off for 1min, it spins back up > again. So its constantly spinning up and down, whereas before it would > spin up once, spin down and stay spun down. > > I can test the behaviour by running this command to spin down the drive: > > sudo hdparm -y /dev/hdb > > One minute after running this command the drive spins back up, I can't > find anything in the logs that explain any attempt to automount or > anything else that would spin up the drive. > > Should I just remove the power from the drive to save its life? > > The 20GB drive is also damn loud and I would really like it to shut up. > I'm just doing this for now to save the drive: while(true) do sudo > hdparm -y /dev/hdb; sleep 60; done > > I'm issuing this as a bug, rather than in the forums, because its new > behaviour in the recent updates, and I can't see it as being > intentional. > > Thanks, > .b. > > ** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided > Status: New > -- unounted ata drive skeeps spinning up and down constantly after recent Feb updates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192207 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
