On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Problem: I am running Debian sid on an amd64-notebook with scsi-drive.
> The problem is, I cannot standby the drive with hdparm -S 1 /dev/sda.
> Well, it is shutting down after 5 seconds, but something is writing
> permanently to the drive so the drive is starting again.

You might want to checkout the laptop-mode-tools package. 

> So my question: How can I make Debian (Linux) to see, which file is
> written to the drive at the moment ?
> 
> Is there a way any ?

powertop might help, I don't know how usefull it actually is on amd64
since I was to lame to compile a kernel with acpi debug support for
it.

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 When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

   Daniel Tryba


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