laptop hard disk etiquette
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 14:59:18 UTC 2007
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
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