Re: ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

2013-04-28 Thread Alexander Hall
Maybe atactl can help. Riccardo Mottola wrote: >Hi, > >I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin >down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type > >"ls" or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a >continuous spin-up spin

Re: ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

2013-04-28 Thread Robert
Hi, you can try to disable power management for it: "atactl /dev/wd0c accousticdisable", or "apmdisable", or "apmset 253" (man atactl) kind regards, Robert On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:40:39 +0200 Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to sp

ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

2013-04-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type "ls" or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a continuous spin-up spin down. This happens when running on mains (the battery