hard disk spin down

[uriah heep]

As I am sure you are aware the short period to spin down is for power saving
only.  Making the hard drive run as long as you want is a trade between
having your battery power last a shorter time.  It will not hurt the
machine. Other than disabling any unnecessary processes or perhaps having
more memory to hold information I doubt there is much you can do on that
side of the problem.
Uriah

On 10/7/07, pol <linux_milano at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> Most of the time spent on my laptop is reading. Often the laptop is not
> powered, so that i can hear the inner disk spinning down and restarting
> every dozen seconds, because many processes are running, while i am
> reading.
> My question is: is there a way to force processes not to read and write so
> often?
> Alternatively, is it safe disabling the disk spin down?
>
> My understanding is that time to spin down is set
> in  /etc/default/acpi-support, where SPINDOWN_TIME=12
> and controlled by the kde-guidance-powermanager package. Is that correct?
> Why so a short time (12s) is set as the default?
>
>
> Thank you
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> Pol
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