Ubuntu
libatasmart package

  1. Bug #435190
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 435190

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In , Snorre Jensen (snorre-jens1) wrote :

All my disks that are inactive (spun down with hdparm -S12 /dev/sd*), are each 30 minutes woken up for a SMART check.

when i run Palimpsest Disk Utility and update now on a disk, I can see this with "ps auxf", and finally found out what is wakening my disks

root 1886 0.0 0.1 4944 2956 ? S 16:37 0:02 /usr/lib/DeviceKit/devkit-disks-daemon
root 1887 0.0 0.0 4608 684 ? S 16:37 0:03 \_ devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/sdb /dev/hdc /dev/sde /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
root 2570 0.0 0.0 2664 604 ? D 22:34 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/DeviceKit/devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect /dev/sda 0

running devicekit-disks 007 on Archlinux (gnome 2.28)