noflushd not working on 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

after nine wrote:

> I have a spare disk in my system intended for backups, which is mounted
> only at the time of backup, otherwise it sits unmounted and spun down.
> This was at least until I upgraded to 8.04. Hardy heron brought
> laptop-mode-tools and my faithfull companion noflushd was removed. As I
> understood, laptop-mode-tools is not started by default at boot time,
> nonetheless I observed that inactive disks were spun down. There is no
> mention of this activity in any system log.

That would be because, aiui, this should be a function of the disk hardware,
not the OS.  
> 
> All the disks in this machine are IDE (ATA) discs, no scsi or sata disk
> here. They are represented as sdX, but this is a new "feature" in Hardy.
> 
> Is there a way to persuade Hardy not to treat all discs as scsi disks? 

No.  And if there was, I suspect you wouldn't be having any better luck.

> I 
> want my noflushd back... How do you control which disc goes to sleep and
> the idle time?

Some functions can be handled with hdparm.
-- 
derek