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Subject: Re: Laptop harddisk spindown?
From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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> 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

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