Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-13 Thread ben knight
Tom: noflushd's job is to cause the disk to spin down until it's physically needed, at the slight expense of data security. If something's been written to the 'disk', noflushd doesn't bother to let the HDD spin up - the data can be truly written next time the disk is spinning anyway. However, if y

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-13 Thread ben knight
Tom: noflushd's job is to cause the disk to spin down until it's physically needed, at the slight expense of data security. If something's been written to the 'disk', noflushd doesn't bother to let the HDD spin up - the data can be truly written next time the disk is spinning anyway. However, if

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Allison
ben knight wrote: You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. Another minute, down, then up again.

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Allison
ben knight wrote: > You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, > surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun > down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. > > >>the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. >>Another minute, down, the

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread ben knight
You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. > the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. > Another minute, down, then up again. rgds, b [EMAIL P

A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Allison
I have Debian (woody) running on my IBM A21m. kernel=2.4.12 kde 2.1.2 is my desktop. I am trying to read some docs in the konquerer and I am listenting to the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. Another minute, down, then up again. syslog.conf has everything precede with a '-' no c

Re: [ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread ben knight
You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. > the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. > Another minute, down, then up again. rgds, b [EMAIL

A21m won't park /dev/hda

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Allison
I have Debian (woody) running on my IBM A21m. kernel=2.4.12 kde 2.1.2 is my desktop. I am trying to read some docs in the konquerer and I am listenting to the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. Another minute, down, then up again. syslog.conf has everything precede with a '-' no cr