Re: HD sleep timeout
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:35, svallet@inapg.inra.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently put a box to run as a mail gateway, so it has to run all
> day long. Unfortunately, I'm not able to let the hard disk go to sleep
> (or maybe It does, but I don't notice).
>
> What I tried is issuing 'hdparm -S <whatever> /dev/hda' and getting
> read of some syslog entries but it doesn't seem to work well.
> The drive goes to sleep (spins down) when forced with -Y, but restarts
> about ten seconds later.
>
> What am I missing ?
Mounting with noatime ? using noflushd ? Or trying my devel kernel
and enable the laptop mode that's in there
Ben.
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