Tracking HD activity

[Ian Petersen]

On Nov 13, 2007 3:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Could be gnome or kde running some volume manager or mount deamon
> polling the cd/dvd for inserted disks every second.  That would make the
> light flash.  After all the light doesn't mean hard disk activity, but
> rather disk controller activity.

I think the HAL does that.  I discovered this little tidbit about the
HAL when running powertop.  There's a way to turn it off, but I forget
what the command is.  If you run powertop, and if that's the source of
the activity, then powertop will tell you how to stop it.  I think the
instructions are also available here:
http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/disks.php

Ian

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