laptop hard disk etiquette

[Warren Togami]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Pádraig Brady (P at draigBrady.com) said: 
>> Which is about once every 4 seconds or so.
>> As mentioned in the bug report I can turn this
>> off by doing `hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda`
>>
>> Should anything be changed for the F8 release?
> 
> Fedora doesn't change the power management values for your drives from
> the defaults set by your BIOS.
> 
> Bill
> 

1) Power off completely.
2) Boot up.
3) Run `hdparm -I /dev/sda` and see "Advanced power management level:"

What default value does your firmware or BIOS have?  notting's drive 
defaulted to 128.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com