Turns out that crond is the culpit after all, and it's happening hourly not every 15 minutes--how I got that wrong I don't know! Tim On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:14:44 -0500, Tim Largy <tim.largy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have two (2) hard drives in my FC3 box, and my second drive is as > loud as a buzz-saw. It's my "scratch" disk and I don't use it often, > so I use the hdparm command to keep it from spinning when not in use. > This method worked fine with FC2, but with FC3 something causes the > drive to spin up every 15 minutes. I've looked through my cron entries > and can't find anything. What could be causing this? > > Tim >