H.S. wrote at 2009-05-28 17:38 -0600: > I have two hard disks (IDE) on my Testing machine. The main one that I > use is hda. I have some partitions on hdb. I use noflushd to spin hdb > down when it is not in use. However, I have noticed recently that the > disk spins up immediately after noflushd spins it down. I see these in > syslog: > ay 28 19:33:06 red noflushd[7703]: Spinning down /dev/hdb. > May 28 19:33:13 red noflushd[7703]: Spinning up /dev/hdb after 0 minutes. > How do I find out why does hdb not remain spun down? It used to work > okay till I think several weeks ago; not sure when the behavior actually > changed. You may want to check smartd; it has been suggested as a culprit for spinning up disks, perhaps even with the "-n standby,q" option used. See smartd.conf(5).
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