[ltp] A21m won't park /dev/hda

[Tom Allison]

ben knight wrote:

> You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd,
> surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun
> down for as long as possible, saving battery etc.
> 
> 
>>the hard drive spin down, then right back up again.
>>Another minute, down, then up again.
>>

These are nasty problems.  noflushd is already installed according to 
apt-get and is running.
After I sent this first email out I did two things:
killed the debugging on kdm (should have done that when I got it working 
a month ago..)
and then I killed konquerer and started playing some game.
Then the disk parked!
I have to do some more reading again and will keep my ears open.   But 
this PC (with an ultra-bay battery) was able to get >7 hours of use on a 
charge.  Now I'm down to 4 hours on a good day.
I've turned of irda, unloaded my pcmcia card in hopes of helping this. 
But it seems that the power savings has taken a turn for the worse on 
this installation.





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