Hi, > It sounds like what you are doing is pretty dangerous think about it, > you are telling the drive to spin down and then an app tries to access > the drive and it spins up again. > if the drive failes to spin up (because you have been successful), the > app is going get a read failed, > leaving your system in an undeterministic state. Situation can be even more dangerous if the disk hosts the swap space ... Thanks, Rajat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ