What is causing my hard-drive to spin up?

Tim Largy tim.largy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 05:05:17 UTC 2005


Turns out that crond is the culpit after all, and it's happening
hourly not every 15 minutes--how I got that wrong I don't know!

Tim

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:14:44 -0500, Tim Largy <tim.largy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two (2) hard drives in my FC3 box, and my second drive is as
> loud as a buzz-saw. It's my "scratch" disk and I don't use it often,
> so I use the hdparm command to keep it from spinning when not in use.
> This method worked fine with FC2, but with FC3 something causes the
> drive to spin up every 15 minutes. I've looked through my cron entries
> and can't find anything. What could be causing this?
> 
> Tim
>




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