HDD does spin down and up again and again

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Friday 29 November 2013 00:30:15 you wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 November 2013 11:12:05 Steve Riley wrote:
> > The file /etc/hdparm.conf is your friend.
> 
> Thank you Steve,
> 
> well-intentioned but exactly what I did not ask for. As already pointed out,
> for many other DEs it's gvfs that wakes up the drives and for KDE it's
> something else and I want to know what is used by KDE, that does wake up
> drives. Unlikely that hdparm is able to set the parameter across the USB
> controller, but even if this should work, I don't want a workaround, I want
> to remove the buggy software KDE is using. I hoped somebody does know what
> part of KDE does touch hard drives without reason. For the DEs using gvfs
> nobody could tell me that it is gvfs, I had to search for the culprit. Hm?
> so I have to search for the culprit again :(.
> 
> It's against my philosophy to fix an issue of buggy software, by
> manipulating the hardware. In my case it unlikely could be fixed by hdparm,
> even if I would be willing to use it.
> 
> The Internet leads to kio as equivalent to gvfs for the virtual file system.
> 
> The hard disk parameters of my HDD are exactly as I want them. I want to
> know what software does cause the spin up.

PS: I started with removing kio related stuff and likely will continue to 
remove nepomuk related stuff. Hints are still welcome.