On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:42:09AM +0200, Henry, Andrew wrote: > 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. Good to know. I should have mentioned, however, that my RAID5 drives are just for data storage. The OS (and therefore syslog and friends) is actually on a compact flash card (using one of those compact flash to IDE converters). Thanks, Matt -- 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
