On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). > > This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always > idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place > where I can easily plug it in and out. > > Googling, I found a very similar looking problem that occurred a few > years ago in libatasmart and which caused DeviceKit to spin up the > drives every hour or so. But I have no DeviceKit here (running Debian > testing). > > Using /proc/sys/vm/block_dump tells me that there is no disk activity > that justifies spinning up. > I have smartmontools installed, but "ps auxw|grep smart" confirms smartd > is not running. > There is no `cron' activity around the time the disk spins up either, > not anything disk-related in the logs. > > Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it?
IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic") but as the man page/doc says, the possible options for this value depend on the hard disks model. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jki70n$ld4$9...@dough.gmane.org