From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Kieser Subject: Re: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:51:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4BAD3A8A.8020105@kieser.ca> References: <4BAB8D41.4010801@gmail.com> <4BAD18A5.1080905@kieser.ca> <5bdc1c8b1003261359i2f6f1bdai3261aec30bb663bf@mail.gmail.com> <4BAD20A2.20606@kieser.ca> <5bdc1c8b1003261406m2ae66154u55a70aada56a91c1@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1003261416xdc883a4qdba1cdf049cca437@mail.gmail.com> <4BAD24EB.4020606@sauce.co.nz> <5bdc1c8b1003261538y751a3089p284bee0ee1b28b63@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Garman Cc: Mark Knecht , Richard Scobie , Andrew Dunn , Mdadm List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 3/26/2010 3:50 PM, Matt Garman wrote: > The point is, in my opinion, a non-system partition should be that > much easier to make "truly" idle... still, I can't figure out how to > do it. > > -Matt > I must also note, that I was seeing the drives stop and start even when there *was* activity on the disks. -Peter