Re: harddrive spins down and up again after 5s

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 11/10/2013 1:46 PM, patrick wrote:

> my freshly installed debian wheezy is spinning the harddrive up and down
> all the time...

First let's establish this is actually the case.  You didn't state "new
computer new drive" or "old computer/drive, new wheezy".

If new computer/drive, which drive is this?  WD Green series drive
firmware auto parks the heads after ~5 seconds and spins the drive down
automatically after 30s, IIRC.

Thus the "problem" may not be caused by the operating system.

-- 
Stan