ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

Hi, I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type ls or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a continuous spin-up spin down. This happens when running on mains (the battery

Re: ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

Hi, you can try to disable power management for it: atactl /dev/wd0c accousticdisable, or apmdisable, or apmset 253 (man atactl) kind regards, Robert On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:40:39 +0200 Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi, I experience very short-cycling of the hard

Re: ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

Maybe atactl can help. Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi, I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type ls or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a