I had a similar issue, as I wanted to take full advantage of parking heads but they kept coming alive again. I was putting them to sleep with hdparm. I gave up at the end, but thought I had read that it was likely syslog or other internals that were polling the disc too frequently. Sorry Im a bit vague on the details. If this was the case (I didn't really investigate) then I thought, stuff it, because I wanted syslog to keep doing it's thing. --andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html