On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:51:52PM +0100, Seth Golub wrote: > I did all this a while back and also shut down every other process I > don't strictly need, but no luck. The drive does spin down > occasionally, but it always spins up again within 30 seconds. I'm > running kernel 2.2.14. > > A sample from the syslog: > > May 28 23:39:25 jetpack noflushd[297]: Spinning down /dev/hda. > May 28 23:39:45 jetpack noflushd[297]: Spinning up /dev/hda after 0 minutes > of spindown. > > The fact that it appears is the syslog at all is rather suspicious. > I wouldn't be surprised if that's the problem, that the changed syslog > buffer gets flushed and the disk spins up to accommodate. All my logs > are buffered, but I don't know how to get noflushd to stop syslogging.
Are you using the minus "-" sign on your filenames in syslog.conf? Try "man syslog.conf" for more info, but basically without the "-" syslogd syncs the disks after every log message. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
