Re: Laptop harddisk spindown?

Thomas Hood (jdthood@mail.com)
08 Nov 2001 13:08:59 -0500


> i have a disk access _every_ 5 sec, unregarding the system load,

I used to have this problem sometimes when my CD-ROM drive
had no disk in it. I would get an infinite series of
"disk change detected" messages in the syslog. The writes
to the syslog kept the disk from spinning down.

Thomas

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