Re: Disk continually spins down even on AC

2011-03-08 Thread Virgil Brummond
The excessive load cycling is a bug, but fine. Thanks for the responses I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1299611371.24916.1.camel@ubuntu-ghibl

Re: Disk continually spins down even on AC

2011-03-08 Thread Marvin Renich
* Klistvud [110308 02:36]: > Dne, 08. 03. 2011 00:44:38 je Virgil Brummond napisal(a): > >If I manually add "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda" to /etc/rc.local this issue > >is worked around. Note I do not have laptop-mode installed, and my > >point > >is I really do not want spin-down at all, and at worst

Re: Disk continually spins down even on AC

2011-03-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 03. 2011 00:44:38 je Virgil Brummond napisal(a): Is there a reason that the disk is not setting appropriate levels by default, I would think that it would only desire to spin down on battery power and not on AC. In my view, the most you can expect of Debian is "reasonable defaults"

Disk continually spins down even on AC

2011-03-07 Thread Virgil Brummond
All the bug reports on the disk spin down issue are marked solved and archived except for one. I am not sure if that is the real problem or not. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614861 Basically the symptoms are on an install of Debian Testing (fully upgraded). Hdparm states that m