Palimpsest Disk Utility is annoying ??

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Jul 7 12:25:02 UTC 2009


Thanks Mike;

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 21:46 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 22:20 -0400, William Case wrote:
> 
> > 1) Palimpsest Disk Utility warns me one of my disks is slow spinning up.
> > I know.  I bought it back when 40 GB was avant garde; it contains my
> > WindowsXP; I don't use it very often; it is regularly backed up to
> > another disk; and, I don't care if it dies.  I will buy a new one then.
> > The disk passes all other tests.
> > 
> > Because of a lack of manuals, can someone tell me how to turn it off.  I
> > don't want to remove it.  It is generally a good utility to have.  I
> > just want Palimpsest Disk Utility to stop nagging me about this problem
> > on this hard disk.
> 
> Only thing I know of is to set it to not start upon login..
> 
> Menu/System/Preferences/StartUp Applications
> 
> Find it and just remove it or whatever and that should help.
> 
I did that but now of course I have lost all warnings unless I run
Palimpsest manually.  I would hope that in the future a user could just
mark the report "Don't warn me about this problem again unless it
worsens".  Oh well.
-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.2
Evo.2.26.2, Emacs 22.3.1




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