On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:42:44PM -0600, Marc A. Ohmann wrote: > it seems to have helped somewhat. its kind of hard to compare though > -- I wish I had a way to measure disk up and down time :-> I know that in my /var/log/messages (on RedHat) or I think you want /var/log/sys.log on Deb, you should see messages from noflushd if you use that whenever it spins a drive up or down. I know this doesn't help if you aren't using it. Also, do you have all your drives mounted with the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab? I got mine to behave pretty well by issuing '/sbin/hdparm -S 4 /dev/hda', though I've found that you really want to put in in /etc/apm/event.d (still looking for the equiv in RedHat) so it comes back when you restore from a suspend/hibernate. I feel like that was the first thing to try, (or maybe the first thing you asked about), but having cleaned out some other junk cleared the way for it to work. -- "Trying to do something with your life is like sitting down to eat a moose." --Douglas Wood