On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I recently put a box to run as a mail gateway, so it has to run all > day long. Unfortunately, I'm not able to let the hard disk go to sleep > (or maybe It does, but I don't notice). > > What I tried is issuing 'hdparm -S <whatever> /dev/hda' and getting > read of some syslog entries but it doesn't seem to work well. > The drive goes to sleep (spins down) when forced with -Y, but restarts > about ten seconds later. > > What am I missing ?
Mounting with noatime ? using noflushd ? Or trying my devel kernel and enable the laptop mode that's in there Ben.
