Your message dated Mon, 1 Jul 2019 12:48:29 +0200
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and subject line hdparm: on battery, the drive spins down too often, even when
standby is off
has caused the Debian Bug report #684241,
regarding hdparm: on battery, the drive spins down too often, even when standby
is off
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: hdparm
Version: 9.39-1+b1
Severity: important
Since quite recently, the hard drive of my laptop spins down too often
when on battery: about after 20 seconds - 30 seconds, then it usually
spins up again after a few seconds (sometimes less than 1 second). So,
these spin-downs are completely useless, make the system a bit slower
(when waiting for spin-up), and would probably lower the lifetime of
the drive.
I can see 2 solutions:
1. Detect this automatically. However it seems that the system cannot
do that.
2. Disable spindown via some option. This is what I did, but without
any effect!
I first tried putting "spindown_time = 0" in /etc/hdparm.conf, then
ran "/etc/init.d/hdparm restart" (not sure whether this is useful).
But the drive still spins down.
I've written a script to see the options:
#!/bin/sh
. /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions
hdparm_options /dev/sda
and it outputs "-B254 -q -S0" when on AC power, and "-B127 -q -S0"
when on battery, as expected (from /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions).
Then I ran directly:
# hdparm -B127 -S0 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x7f (127)
setting standby to 0 (off)
APM_level = 127
but the drive still spins down.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages hdparm depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7
Versions of packages hdparm recommends:
ii powermgmt-base 1.31
Versions of packages hdparm suggests:
ii apmd 3.2.2-14
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/hdparm.conf changed:
quiet
spindown_time = 0
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Closing this bug as it is suppose to be fixed even in oldoldstable, and
likelihood that somebody installs that old Debian version to a laptop is
rather low.
--- End Message ---
