On 11/06/2010 04:35 PM, Rafael Beraldo wrote:
Hello people, A few months ago I wrote about my hard disk, which was making a strange noise due to excessive head parking. I just added hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda to /etc/rc.local and the problem was gone. Then I found out that whenever I used gnome-power-manager it would set the APM to 1 if the power source is the battery. I didn't find a way to instruct it to leave the APM setting alone, so I avoided using it. Recently I installed GNOME in my box and noticed that even if I disable gnome-power-manager at startup, some piece of GNOME is still setting APM to 1 when the netbook is on the battery. I don't use laptop-mode-tools nor is acpid running which brings me the question: what is messing up with APM? How can I tell GNOME and gnome-power-manager not to change its settings? Thank you,
gpm has a setting to spin down hard disks when you are on AC. just uncheck the option.
System->Preferences->power management-> Select AC Power tab and uncheck Spin down hard disks when possible
-- Ionuț
