Stroller writes: > The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop.
No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate >> ~/log/hdstate.log sleep 10 done > Running a script which contains `while true ... sleep 60` will cause > only a single logging action. You can run it as root at startup using / > etc/conf.d/local.start and have the file world readable. Yeah, local.start woudl also be a good idea, without the need to setuid things. Maybe I'll change this. BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, they are not even mounted. Wonko