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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