Re: hard disk spin down
pol pisze:
> Most of the time spent on my laptop is reading. Often the laptop is not
> powered, so that i can hear the inner disk spinning down and restarting
> every dozen seconds, because many processes are running, while i am
> reading.
> My question is: is there a way to force processes not to read and write so
> often?
> Alternatively, is it safe disabling the disk spin down?
>
> My understanding is that time to spin down is set
> in /etc/default/acpi-support, where SPINDOWN_TIME=12
> and controlled by the kde-guidance-powermanager package. Is that correct?
> Why so a short time (12s) is set as the default?
>
>
> Thank you
> --
> Pol
>
>
Try (disable APM):
hdparm -B 255 <device>
<device>==/dev/sda or /dev/hda...
or use laptop-mode-tools package
--
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.maciek.unixy.pl
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