lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What I'm trying to do is three things: > > > + make it so that smart information is not being polled from /dev/sda > > + make it so that DVD drives are not being polled for media changes > > + make sure that /dev/sda can go into sleep mode without being woken up > unless I mount the file system it has on it I ended up removing the udisks2 and udisks packages, and after killing udisks2, /dev/sda is finally asleep. Why is the smart data requested all the time? Is something processing this data to send a warning if there is an indication that a disk might fail? Besides removing this udisks stuff, what is the proposed way of disabling these daemons? There isn't even any decent documentation about these things. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org