Hi!
> > > Well, noflushd already seems to work pretty well ;-). But I see kernel
> > > support may be required for SCSI.
> >
> > I've had no luck at all with noflushd on my Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT.
> > It would spin down every few minutes, and then spin up _immediately_,
> > every time. I have no idea why.
>
> Were you using the console? Any activity on ttys causes device inode
> atime/mtime updates which trigger disk spin ups. The easiest way to
> work around this is to run X while using devpts for the ptys.
Noflushd does not spin up disks for write activity.
Pavel
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