On 24 August 2010 14:31, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Mick writes:
On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote:
BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird,
they are not even mounted.
From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044
I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have
set up and p*sses me off. o_O
As soon as KDE starts up (even when waking up from suspend to ram) it
resets the drives. I haven't found a way of telling it how to behave
(i.e. by respecting existing settings in hdparm).
Argh, that's annoying. Thanks for the information. O well, first I
setuid'ed hdparm to make it work as a user, then I reverted that back as I
started it in /etc/init.d/local, and now I'm again setuid'ing it so I can
set the settings from /etc/conf.d/hdparm in ~/.kde4/Autostart/.
I filed a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248905
You might want to vote for it so it gets some attention and will hopefully
be fixed soon.
Thanks Wonko,
As reported on https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334393 the workaround of:
touch /etc/pm/power.d/harddrive
stops KDE4.4.4/5 from messing up the existing hdparm settings (at
least as far as acoustic management is concerned). At least now I
don't have to listen this Seagate sata rattling all day! :-)
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Regards,
Mick
