[ltp] Making hard drive stop when not in use

[Nick Bower]

I'd be interested to know what the original poster was talking about -
not spinning down under ac or just battery.  It is my understanding that
laptop mode is usually only triggered by acpi (using the default
scripts) to make power saving adjustments when on battery power.  

However I reached a situation recently in which my hard-drive was
ticking along (I could hear clicks about 1 a sec) for no good reason
without spinning down.  A reboot fixed it but it left be very very
curious.

nick

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 17:18, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> 
> >The laptop kernel patches.  The laptop-mode-tools package is userland
> >pieces of this.  What you need to patch the kernel w/ Debian I am
> >unclear about.
> >  
> >
> I don't think you have to patch anything.  I just did an apt-get 
> laptop-mode-tools and it installed.  2 minutes later  I heard my hard 
> drive shutdown
> 
> Jay