On Feb 15, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Weird thing about this 570's CD-ROM drive: It won't stop spinning > once it's been used. It only quiets down if I issue an 'hdparm -y > /dev/cdrom' command, to force it into suspend mode at that moment. > > Does anyone else have eternally-active CD-ROM drives? Better yet, > have you fixed it already? adTHANKSvance....
I found that the oops HTTP proxy package caused a hard drive access every 9 seconds or so, which kept my hard drive always awake, even after I killed oops. (!) Uninstalling oops (and rebooting, argh) fixed the problem. If not oops, it might be some other package (or syslogd). You might also try noflushd from the testing distribution, for cached writes. John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnome.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.worldforge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openbooks.sourceforge.net http://advogato.org/person/jsheets Writing Gnome Applications http://www.aw.com/cseng/titles/0-201-65791-0/
