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 is dead anyway). Are there settings about this? Or is it all coming from the BIOS where I don't see such settings (the older IBM BIOSes were very simple). What I find wrong is the very short time to spin down again, something like 10-15 seconds! Riccardo
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 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 is dead anyway). Are there settings about this? Or is it all coming from the BIOS where I don't see such settings (the older IBM BIOSes were very simple). What I find wrong is the very short time to spin down again, something like 10-15 seconds! Riccardo
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 continuous spin-up spin down. This happens when running on mains (the battery is dead anyway). Are there settings about this? Or is it all coming from the BIOS where I don't see such settings (the older IBM BIOSes were very simple). What I find wrong is the very short time to spin down again, something like 10-15 seconds! Riccardo
