[mythtvnz] HDD Load Cycle Count ticking over too fast

[David Moore]

On 26/06/12 15:39, David Moore wrote:
> But I'm not convinced changing the idle timer to a large value is the 
> best solution since the drive will still eventually spin down and then 
> immediately spin up again within 15s. I suppose I could stop 
> intellipark altogether. I'd really like to figure out why the disk 
> gets pinged every 15s when there is nothing that should be reading 
> from or writing to it unless a myth recording or playback is in 
> progress. Or am I missing something fundamental about how Linux caches 
> file system info even on idle file systems?
>
Never mind. I'm especially thick today. Of course all I need is an idle 
time greater than 15s and the drive will never spin down.