On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:20:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > From: linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of John Murphy > > > Does it spin down and up again if you stay in your BIOS configuration, > > or Grub prompt? > > Thank you John :) that's a very good idea. I'll test it right now. > > FWIW for > > spinymouse@avlinux:~$ uname -a > Linux avlinux 3.0.23-avl-7-pae #28 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 19:14:14 EST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > spinymouse@avlinux:~$ cat /etc/issue > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l 'noatime' is the default for 3.x kernels, so no need to do anything about that in fstab. > Xfce does auto-mount the partitions and the WD never spins down, > the LED shows access every few seconds, even with nothing else > but Xfce and the screensaver running. Suse 11.2, Ubuntu Quantal > and Arch Linux (all 64-bit) also make the WD spin down and up > when the partitions are mounted. > > *restart* :) If you don't tend to do that very often, you may be interested to know (I think it's still so) that most 2.5" HDDs are designed for a 50:50 duty cycle. It may be that they spin down partly to force some heat saving, as well as save the environment. I have a Soekris Net4801 around here somewhere, which has a 2.5" HDD mounted directly above its CPU in a very small case. IIRC; it cost about 5 times the price of an ordinary drive - to get 'always on' in the spec. Just about to gdisk a 3TiB Seagate !Green Barracuda. I mitigate its carbon footprint by never flying and rarely bathing! -- John. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
