[ltp] apm and hdparm

[David Margrave]

I noticed that when I compiled my kernel with various APM options, that
the hard drive spins down fairly quickly when idle.  X always seems to
keep it spinning.  Anyhow, when not in X, it spins down quickly and seems
to ignore whatever I set with hdparm.  i.e. hdparm  -S 0 /dev/hda should
disable the spin-down, but does not.  Nor does something like hdparm -S
240 /dev/hda work either.

Here is the applicable part of my kernel .config.  I'm on a thinkpad 600
with kernel 2.2.19.  

thanks,

Dave


CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set



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