On 8/10/07, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote: > > Problem: I am running Debian sid on an amd64-notebook with scsi-drive. > The problem is, I cannot standby the drive with hdparm -S 1 /dev/sda. Well, it > is shutting down after 5 seconds, but something is writing permanently to the > drive so the drive is starting again. Maybe this issue about 'atime' has something to do with your problem: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/08/1810243