Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hello,
>    I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV
> frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for
> default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems
> that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find
> what's causing that and at least make it more infrequent? I see
> nothing in /var/log/messages nor anything in dmesg. Is there somewhere
> else I should look?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 

If its once per hour, its probably hourly crons running then. My laptop
behaved itself when i was running linux on it - rarely spinning teh disk
 up at all. Can't say the same for my desktop however. :)

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