Hi!

I try to get the disks in my old machine (FTP server with only shell installed) to spin down when idle.

I've not set anything in /etc/hdparm.conf. So far I've only executed 'hdparm -S60 /dev/hdxx'

The machine have 3 old disks and for those on IDE0 all works fine in terms of that they stop and start when service is needed (more on that later). The third disk, an IBM DHEA-38451 set as master on IDE1 stops but refuse to start again when accessed. They only way (except a reboot) I've found to start it again is to execute 'hdparm -I /dev/hdc5'

Does anybody know if there is a known isssue with this disk or should I do something else to get this to work properly? I don't know if it has something to do with it but disk3 is mounted as an additional directory in my ftp home directory.

Also, disk1 (i.e. /dev/hda1) is restarted repeatedly due to logfile updates. I've managed to find how to prevent exim4 to load at boot but how do I prevent all other software to write to the disk? Or for the unneccessary ones, not to load at all...

Cheers
/Stickan