On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 02:06:41AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > not necessarly i have a new IBM drive that has occasionally been > > showing those messages in the logs, however i noticed that everytime > > one of those occured the disk was spinning back up, after making a > > very slight click. i got a hunch that somehow the power saving > > `feature' was turned on and used hdparm to instruct it to go into > > standby mode, and what do you know the exact same click sound, so i > > run ls -l / the drive spins back up and one of those timeout messages > > appear. i ran /sbin/hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda which disables power saving, > > so far i have not had any more of these errors, though its only been a > > few days... > > cool. i bet that was it. > > how did you stumble across hdparm? it wasn't included when i > did my recent apt-get dist-upgrade (frozen)... apt-get install hdparm its not a required or essential package so you have to install it yourself. be sure to read the man page though, it will allow you to change things which could result in total filesystem ruination and massive data corruption. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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