In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dale R Worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Thanks a lot for your information.
I have the 'mobile-update' running here which is linked to from the
Linux Laptop web site. Now I'll give Gernot Kerschaumer's 'update' a
try and compare the two. The better one wins! :-)
Concerning your comment about my spin-down not working correctly, well
it works the first hour (or so) after having started Linux. So I don't
see what's wrong with the spin-down itself. I rather suspect what you
already wrote about altering the access date.
BTW: The spin-down is configured to 1 minute. I think the command which
I used was 'hdparm -S 12' IIRC.
Greetings,
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Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acorn RiscPC * StrongARM 202 MHz * 66 MB RAM
'Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.' - Mark Twain
