Re: disk spindown

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Bill Davidsen  writes:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > I've done the following and the "hdparm -C" does show the disk spun
> > down, but the next time I look it is spun up, and it stays up.  The disk
> One thing wrong might be jumpers, Other than that, I suspect something
> is still accessing it. udev?

Thanks for the good ideas.

This is a WD Caviar Green and the jumpers are only documented to slow
down the SATA by one notch and add spread spectrum clocking for rf noise
reduction.

I'll have to try to check for udev.  Maybe running lsof in a loop will
catch it.

-wolfgang