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! :-) -- Regards, Mick
