[vdr] Re: HD Spindown

[Dennis Noordsij <dennis.noordsij@wiral.com>]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 14:26, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to get the HD in my vdr-box silent (when i am only watching TV),
> so i gave it a short suspend timeout with hdparm. Unfortunatly it is
> spinning up every few minutes. All what i found so far is a epg dump
> every 10 minutes (600 secs) in eit.c. put that to 2 hrs, but spinning up
> still goes on.
>
> Any ideas where additional disc access is performed ?
>
> thanks Tim

Various kernel threads, flushing buffercache to disk, etc. You might have some 
luck searching the archives, as someone has posted a solution in the past, 
but you can also find it in some HOWTO :-)  (I'm sorry, I don't remember the 
exact details).

Cheers,
Dennis


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