Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
On 22:08 Tue 01 Feb , Nils Holland wrote: > I guess it's probably the way this machine "works", and feel that the > reference to acpid sounds like a very promising way to fixing this. As > such, thanks to everyone who pointed me into that direction - I'll > have a look and see if it works! R

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Holland
On 08:38 Tue 01 Feb , Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:09 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > > > However, now comes the problem: It seems that whenever I change from > > wall power to battery power (probably also vice versa, but I haven't > > tested this often enough), the ma

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:09 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > However, now comes the problem: It seems that whenever I change from > wall power to battery power (probably also vice versa, but I haven't > tested this often enough), the machine's HDD forgets about the > settings I've made using "hdp

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:09 on Monday 31 January 2011, Nils Holland did opine thusly: > Hi folks, > > I've got an Asus X7BJ-something laptop here that by default (i.e. when > installing plain Gentoo on it) seems to do too aggressive power > management for its hard drive. That is, alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Nils Holland wrote: > Of course, manually executing "hdparm -B 254 -S 0 /dev/sda" after > unplugging the machine fixes the issue again. However, something more > "automated" would be prefered. I had the same problem. My solution was to edit /etc/conf.d/local and a

[gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, I've got an Asus X7BJ-something laptop here that by default (i.e. when installing plain Gentoo on it) seems to do too aggressive power management for its hard drive. That is, already after only about five seconds(!!) of inactivity, the HDD spins down. This is kind of insane - you edit so