[indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Lurie <yura at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> Yep, I have that happening to me as well, highly annoying and probably hurts the drive as well.
>  It was even more annoying when I was running my drives in P-ATA as I was hitting this: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6622965 . But even in AHCI I still get the spindowns.
>
>  What's more interesting is that I have the disk power management disabled from dtpower, so it shouldn't do that at all...

I can't switch to AHCI because then Windows freaks out and I can't
boot it anymore. If I was just running Solaris, it would be fine. But
I have to run three different OS'.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
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