I thought that something had been done to stop this continual parking and waking of the hard drive on laptops, in recent Fedora releases. In the past, I added a hdparm command to /etc/rc.local, but I was under the impression that laptop installations were meant to be a bit smarter about this, later on.
It's annoying to hear it going click/whirr every few seconds, and is going to prematurely wear out the drive. Not to mention that there's zero point in putting a drive into standby if you're only going to keep poking at it every few seconds. And, quite frankly, I don't see why the OS should be doing that, either. This is on a fairly basic new install. I haven't intentionally installed something that ought to be continually running in the background. -- Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. The mindset of software designers: You know that feature that you, and many thousands of other users, found useful? We removed it, because we didn't like it. We also hard-coded the default settings that you keep customising. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
