From: Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   I have that one running on my laptop. It works for the first few hours,
   but then the disc spins up and hasn't the chance to spin down again.

I've used a Linux laptop and never got it to leave the disk fully
quiescent, either.  (I suspect either 'at' or 'cron' is repeatedly
re-reading some file, thus altering its access date, which must be
written to disk.)  But once I took 'at' out of crontab, the disk would
only fire up once an hour or so, and then spin down.  I suspect that,
on top of your other problems, the spin-down isn't working correctly.

Dale

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