Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:06:58 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: HD head unloads |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Let me jump in here. Short info: Toshiba MK2003GAH 1.8" 20GB > PATA harddisk, in a Sony Vaio U3 (x86, gray-blue PhoenixBIOS). > If idle for more than 5 secs, unloads. Even when not inside any OS, > which really sets me off. > So I wrote a quick workaround hack for Linux, http://tinyurl.com/y3qs6g > It reads a predefined amount of bytes (just as much to not cause > slowdown yet still cause it to not unload) from the disk at fixed > intervals.
Thanks for the info. Jan, in your specific case, can you not "fix it" properly with:
hdparm -B255 /dev/?d?
(fill in your drive device there).
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