laptop disk access

Mike Bate mikebate_tl at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 12 18:58:41 UTC 2004


With both Warty and Hoary, my laptop does a hard disk access every few 
seconds, even when the machine has been just sitting for an hour.

What is happening, and can/should/how do I stop this or reduce the 
frequency?

('hdparm -S20 /dev/hda' was suggested on IRC, no change)

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Mike
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