---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 8, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hello, > I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV > frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for > default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems > that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find > what's causing that and at least make it more infrequent? I see > nothing in /var/log/messages nor anything in dmesg. Is there somewhere > else I should look? > > Thanks, > Mark > If its once per hour, its probably hourly crons running then. My laptop behaved itself when i was running linux on it - rarely spinning teh disk up at all. Can't say the same for my desktop however. :) But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? Thanks, Mark
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