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n 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am |
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> actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my |
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> hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back to |
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> work again. So I first thought that there must be any program accessing |
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> the harddisk on a regular basis. So I ran lm-profiler - but nothin'. |
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If the drive is mounted, yeah, I'd expect to be spinning up, but if |
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its not mounted then I dont see a reason for it to be spinning up. |
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If its mounted the kernel will most probably be doing disk-caching in |
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ram, and will probably be randomly probing the drive for data to stick |
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in the cache ( Ok, tbh, i dont know a lot about the internals of disk |
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caching, I'm just saying its feasible ). |
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If its unmounted I think its feasable that the SATA HOTSWAPability |
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function could be tripping the sata socket to see if theres anything |
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still there and waking it up *shrugs* |
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Mostly Uneducated guesses, but suppose it gives others a starting |
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point to look for possibilities :) |
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Kent |
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