14 Mar
2013
14 Mar
'13
9:38 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:20:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)lists.linuxaudio.org on
behalf of John Murphy
'noatime' is the default for 3.x kernels, so no need to do anything
about that in fstab.
Does it spin down and up again if you stay in
your BIOS configuration,
or Grub prompt?
Thank you John :) that's a very good idea. I'll test it right now.
FWIW for
spinymouse@avlinux:~$ uname -a
Linux avlinux 3.0.23-avl-7-pae #28 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 19:14:14 EST 2012 i686
GNU/Linux
spinymouse@avlinux:~$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l Xfce does auto-mount the partitions and the WD never
spins down,
the LED shows access every few seconds, even with nothing else
but Xfce and the screensaver running. Suse 11.2, Ubuntu Quantal
and Arch Linux (all 64-bit) also make the WD spin down and up
when the partitions are mounted.
*restart*
:) If you don't tend to do that very often, you may be interested
to know (I think it's still so) that most 2.5" HDDs are designed
for a 50:50 duty cycle. It may be that they spin down partly to
force some heat saving, as well as save the environment.
I have a Soekris Net4801 around here somewhere, which has a 2.5"
HDD mounted directly above its CPU in a very small case. IIRC;
it cost about 5 times the price of an ordinary drive - to get
'always on' in the spec.
Just about to gdisk a 3TiB Seagate !Green Barracuda.
I mitigate its carbon footprint by never flying and rarely bathing!
--
John.