On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 18:01:57 (+0000), G.W. Haywood wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 0...@caiway.net wrote: > > > -dsr- wrote: > > > > > > There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that > > > would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This > > > tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible > > > performance. > > > with cron: > > # prevent disks from sleeping, every minute: > > * * * * * /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/ > > No, I don't think so. The discs in question I believe by default > sleep after eight seconds and play particularly badly with Linux.
Is that what's discussed in man hdparm under option -J? Cheers, David.
