Re: harddrive spins down and up again after 5s
CC'ing back to the list.
On 11/11/2013 7:42 AM, patrick wrote:
> Am 11.11.2013 00:01, schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
>> On 11/10/2013 3:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>>> Thus the "problem" may not be caused by the operating system.
>>> It is the OS, it's gvfs. Sure, it doesn't cause the spin down, but gvfs
>>> does cause the unwanted spin up.
>> You may be correct. However, do note that Patrick's only indication
>> that his "drive" was spinning down/up every 5 minutes was that he
>> "heard" it. Which is why I was starting from ground zero with the
>> troubleshooting.
>>
>> Modern drives, both laptop and desktop, are so quiet as to be inaudible
>> to many/most people. Thus, what Patrick is hearing may not even be the
>> hard drive, but could very well be his CPU or GPU fan, or his DVD drive
>> motor spinning up/down.
>>
>
> oh yes, i didnt specify the hardware.
>
> its a toshiba sattelite pro c660-2tq, its about one year old but got
> barely usage on it.
> im sure that the cpu fan sounds different and is located in a different
> position.
> the cpu fan is incredibly loud....actually the laptop should not have a
> pro in its name.
> theres no dvd/cd in the drive
>
> im working with pcs for over 10 years now, i always build them from the
> ground up so im sure that the harddrive is what im listening to.
Ok, so you're pretty sure it is the drive cycling down/up.
> hdparm -I /dev/sda says its a:
> toshiba MK5075GSX
>
> barely google hits for this product.
>
>
> shouldnt gvfs show up in mount?
> also, it looks like gvfs is pretty essential to gnome 3, how much work
> did you do to create a replacement packet?
Ralf will have to help you with the Gnome/GVFS aspect of this as I'm not
familiar with it.
--
Stan
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