On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:09:38PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: | I can spin down my other two disks for long periods, but my boot drive | only stays spun down for a few seconds. Have you looked at hdparm -S and noflushd? It notices when a drive is spun down and tells the kernel not to write stuff to that drive for a while. Cameron.