look into hdparm?
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Clinton Bittel wrote:
-Redhat 6.0
-Kernel 2.2.5-15
-3 - 6.1GB Seagate IDE drives
-RaidTools-0.90
-Raid 5
-
-I have a problem where my IDE drives power down
-after a period of non use. They produce a horrible
-cla-ching noise as they go down. I'm concerned that
-this might corrupt the filesystem, or destroy
-the drives over time. I've disabled all power saving
-features in the BIOS but this doesn't solve the problem.
-I ended up putting in a cron job that touches a file
-on the RAID device once a minute. This stops the drives
-from going offline. I think someone mentioned a command
-that could be put in the raidtab file that would prevent
-this but they were talking about SCSI drives. Would the
-same command work for IDE drives?
-
-Thanks
--clint
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