What is causing my hard-drive to spin up?

[John Wendel]

Tim Largy wrote:
> Turns out that crond is the culpit after all, and it's happening
> hourly not every 15 minutes--how I got that wrong I don't know!
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:14:44 -0500, Tim Largy <tim.largy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have two (2) hard drives in my FC3 box, and my second drive is as
>>loud as a buzz-saw. It's my "scratch" disk and I don't use it often,
>>so I use the hdparm command to keep it from spinning when not in use.
>>This method worked fine with FC2, but with FC3 something causes the
>>drive to spin up every 15 minutes. I've looked through my cron entries
>>and can't find anything. What could be causing this?
>>
>>Tim
>>
> 
> 

You mentioned that you're using "the hdparm command" to keep the disk 
spun down. Are you using "hdparm -y" or "hdparm -Y". I ask because I'm 
having a problem with "hdparm -Y", it puts my disk to sleep but I can't 
get it to recover when I try to mount it.

Thanks,

John