According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Andy Spiegl writes:
> > I read that when a disk has been running for a very long time it sort of
> > dug a ditch into the ball bearing. And when it spins up after a shutdown
> > chances are high it won't find that 'ditch' or stumbles across it and
> > fails.
>
Hi!
I just managed to find a tool (actually it's a kernel patch) that
allows my SCSI disks to spin down when they are idle for more than
a specified time.
This works great for my WINDOS disk which is hardly used while I
run Linux, but it doesn't work at all for the disk where the
Linux partitions
The disks never spin down because Linux is constanly checking to see if
its buffers need flushing. (I think)
George Bonser
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I don't think this is going to work, since Linux caches the superblock
as well as other filesystem info. There's a daemon called bdflush,
which I believe has been incorporated into the kernel ... its job is to
flush dirty disk buffers. Since Linux multitasks, I imagine something
is being read fr
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
>
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >
> > I don't think this is going to work, since Linux caches the superblock
> > as well as other filesystem info. There's a daemon called bdflush,
> > which I believe has been incorporated into the kernel ... its j
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >
> > I don't think this is going to work, since Linux caches the superblock
> > as well as other filesystem info. There's a daemon called bdflush,
> > which I believe has been incorporated into the kernel ... its job is to
> > flush dirty disk buffers. Since Linux mu
Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> I don't think this is going to work, since Linux caches the superblock
> as well as other filesystem info. There's a daemon called bdflush,
> which I believe has been incorporated into the kernel ... its job is to
> flush dirty disk buffers. Since Linux multitasks, I
George Bonser wrote:
>
> The disks never spin down because Linux is constanly checking to see if
> its buffers need flushing. (I think)
>
I've been trying to get my disk to spin down on my laptop. I haven't
totally accomplished this yet. Usually when I start the thing up I
see my disk light come
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
> Why do I need apache on my laptop? Why do some car owners think
> they need nitrous and a super-charger in their Pinto?
Don't feel alone running apache on your laptop. I carry a
development copy of all our web-based support (which runs
on Apache) around on mine.
Ste
Andy Spiegl writes:
> I read that when a disk has been running for a very long time it sort of
> dug a ditch into the ball bearing. And when it spins up after a shutdown
> chances are high it won't find that 'ditch' or stumbles across it and
> fails.
You read wrong. I doubt anyone has made a dis
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