Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:09:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:09:46 -0500 Received: from sushi.toad.net ([162.33.130.105]:13018 "EHLO sushi.toad.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:09:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Laptop harddisk spindown? From: Thomas Hood To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.15 (Preview Release) Date: 08 Nov 2001 13:08:59 -0500 Message-Id: <1005242943.20873.928.camel@thanatos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > i have a disk access _every_ 5 sec, unregarding the system load, I used to have this problem sometimes when my CD-ROM drive had no disk in it. I would get an infinite series of "disk change detected" messages in the syslog. The writes to the syslog kept the disk from spinning down. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/