Michael, that could be either some regular access to extents residing on hdb or a drive spin down flaw in the IDE driver in case "hdparm -S" went proper. On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:11:05AM +0200, Michael Frotscher wrote: > Hello, all > > I'd like to have the drives of my LVM-system (SuSE 8.0) to spin down > when the volume is not used (it's a data-volume only, the system > resides somewhere else). The volume consists of one partition of hda > and drives hdb and hdc are completely dedicated to it. > > I tried to set a spindown-time in BIOS as well as hdparm -S, but > strangely only hdc powers down (checked that with hdparm -C). I don't > really expect hda to power down as the system resides on it, but hdb > obviously should. Does anyone have an idea why it doesn't? > -- > cheers, > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
