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

[Tino Keitel]

On Tuesday, 13. November 2001 11:52, Tom Allison wrote:
> 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.

Do you use a journaling FS?

Tino

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