Comment 25 for bug 27323

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surfjunky (aaronroland) wrote : Re: [Bug 27323] Re: provide a way to disable drive polling

Hi,
the bug showed in my case to be a problem with the power mangament which
allways spins down the hardrive.
I use ...
sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda to stop that shit ...

bye

hackel schrieb:
> This bug is nearly 2 years old. Does the issue still exist, or is there
> now a way to disable polling, customise the polling interval, and/or
> reduce polling to a single daemon? If not, I believe the priority of
> this bug should be increased from "low" as it definitely has a negative
> impact on power saving features on laptops. I don't much care what the
> default is, but there needs to be an easy to way to customise or disable
> it.
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