I was looking at the hdparm package yesterday... a while back I set my stystem up to issue hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda at boot...but I am realizing that my drive never spins down. in fact it seems liek every few seconds I hear it access... I was wondering... is this a side effect of "update" running? (I know it flushes the buffers every 5 seconds). Is there some reason that hdparm is useless (in this regard)? it also seems if I hdparm -y /dev/hda the drive does spin down...but then a few seconds later spins back up! its starting to piss me off a bit. I thought of killing update to see if it helps but...I thought better of it (just in case) id update needed?
Maybe it is just my paranoia....but I have had enough hard drive crashes and general failures...id like to minimize the possibility of failure and so id like it to spin down when not in use. any ideas? -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
