Re: HD head unloads

Mark Lord
2006-11-14T18:07:04Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> Let me jump in here. Short info: Toshiba MK2003GAH 1.8" 20GB
> PATA harddisk, in a Sony Vaio U3 (x86, gray-blue PhoenixBIOS).
> If idle for more than 5 secs, unloads. Even when not inside any OS,
> which really sets me off.
> So I wrote a quick workaround hack for Linux, http://tinyurl.com/y3qs6g
> It reads a predefined amount of bytes (just as much to not cause
> slowdown yet still cause it to not unload) from the disk at fixed
> intervals.

Thanks for the info.
Jan, in your specific case, can you not "fix it" properly with:

hdparm -B255 /dev/?d?

(fill in your drive device there).

???