Re: Disk heads won't park
On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> For each drive
> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd...
> now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for
> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
>
> This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
>
> Some software, e.g. GVFS and KDE's equivalent to GVFS could make drives
> spin up and down again and again. I'm e.g. using Xfce4 without GVFS, but
> after using K3b my "Green" WD USB drive spins up and down again and
> again, if I have GVFS installed this happens all the times.
I don't think KDE has anything like GVFS. I use KDE and see nothing extra
mounted shows up in my mtab. This is fine since I never saw the point in GVFS
at all in the first place.
Conrad
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