[LAU] Special Consideration for WD Green HDDs

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Thu Mar 14 21:15:05 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 13:39 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Thu, March 14, 2013 1:19 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > No, if I stay in the BIOS configuration is spiny down and keeps
> > sleeping.
> >
> > There's something bad with Linux :(.
> >
> > This should be fixed for Linux, this energy saving mode is really good,
> > when it works as it should work.
> >
> > Now I wonder what does cause this issue and where to report it.
> 
> If the action is different in xfce than gnome or unity, then tumblerd
> would likely be the cause... but before looking at that, I would suggest
> looking at any of these linux's in RL 1 (safe mode) which should be on
> most Grub boot lists. This would make sure X and any of the session stuff
> is not running. Then look when gdm/lightdm/xdm or whatever is the only
> thing running. That would clear or point to system services. There may
> also be a difference if the drive is plugged in before boot, or after boot
> (hot plugged).

It was the same for an outdated Suse with GNOME2, as it is for Ubuntu
Quantal Xfce4 and Arch Linux Xfce4.

Ok, I take a look what happens in safe mode, before I try to disable the
energy saving mode.




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