[vdr] Re: HD Spindown

[Tim Schröder <tim.schroeder@epost.de>]

Am Don, 2003-02-06 um 13.32 schrieb Dennis Noordsij:
> 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).
> 
No, it is really vdr. From linux side a got it fixed (journaled fs has
to be mounted with noatime set).  spinning up only occurs if vdr is
running.


> Cheers,
> Dennis
-- 
Tim Schröder <tim.schroeder@epost.de>



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