[laptop-mode] my harddrive won't spin down

Sun Jan 24 11:05:54 CET 2010

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I'm sorry, I forgot to mention, that I downloaded your latest 
laptop-mode tools I think 1.53 from archive of this mailing list. Is 
there any difference between
/etc/init.d/laptopmode status and the command that you gave me?
I'll send it in the next mail.
I didn't do a fresh setup - I just copied all the data from one drive to 
an other and changed uuids of disks. Linux is working and I have less 
work to done.
I think that this isn't a problem, but I'm not sure.
Thank ou for now, look forward to status output,
Vojta

Dne 24.1.2010 10:50, Bart Samwel napsal(a):
> Hi Vojta,
>
> 2010/1/23 VojtÄ›ch PolÃ¡Å¡ek <krecoun at gmail.com <mailto:krecoun at gmail.com>>
>
>     I started with linux about a month ago - I came from M$ windows.
>     I installed ubuntu laptopmodetools - version 1,47 and made some
>     config changes and disk spindowns worked well.
>     Then I bought a new hard drive seagate 320 gb 7200 rpm. I can
>     provied you more info if you want to, but now I must find some
>     hardware info tool for linux.
>     I'm using ubuntu 9.04, which is modified to suite needs of blind
>     persons - I'm blind.
>     I'm quite new to the linux, but I'm not total newbie.
>     Is this a hardware issue?
>     When I run hdparm -y /dev/sda1 it spins down but only for a few
>     seconds and then it starts again.
>     lm-profiler doesn't reveal any rapid disk activity - the same
>     activity as with old drive which worked well.
>     What to do?
>
>
> OK, let's check some things. Did you reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 when you 
> upgraded the drive, or did you somehow transfer the installation to 
> the new drive? And if you did a reinstall, are you sure you applied 
> the exact same settings as before?
>
> In a state where the machine is supposed to be in laptop mode (e.g. on 
> battery), could you run the following command:
>
> /usr/sbin/laptop_mode status
>
> and send us the output?
>
> Another thing you could try is using the non-lobotomized latest 
> version of laptop-mode-tools, which you can download from here:
>
> http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/debian
>
> Ubuntu is great, but they have adapted laptop-mode-tools in ways that 
> are not always very helpful, and I'm not sure what the particular 
> quirks of your Ubuntu version are. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Bart
>
>
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I'm sorry, I forgot to mention, that I downloaded your latest
laptop-mode tools I think 1.53 from archive of this mailing list. Is
there any difference between 
/etc/init.d/laptopmode status and the command that you gave me? 
I'll send it in the next mail. 
I didn't do a fresh setup - I just copied all the data from one drive
to an other and changed uuids of disks. Linux is working and I have
less work to done. 
I think that this isn't a problem, but I'm not sure. 
Thank ou for now, look forward to status output, 
Vojta 
 
Dne 24.1.2010 10:50, Bart Samwel napsal(a):
<blockquote
 cite="mid:ded01eb21001240150q7c9aac21l159078f2ad1a48da at mail.gmail.com"
 type="cite">Hi Vojta, 
 
 <div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/23 VojtÄ›ch PolÃ¡Å¡ek &lt;<a
 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:krecoun at gmail.com">krecoun at gmail.com</a>&gt; 
 <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
 style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
started with linux about a month ago - I came from M$ windows. 
I installed ubuntu laptopmodetools - version 1,47 and made some config
changes and disk spindowns worked well. 
Then I bought a new hard drive seagate 320 gb 7200 rpm. I can provied
you more info if you want to, but now I must find some hardware info
tool for linux. 
I'm using ubuntu 9.04, which is modified to suite needs of blind
persons - I'm blind. 
I'm quite new to the linux, but I'm not total newbie. 
Is this a hardware issue? 
When I run hdparm -y /dev/sda1 it spins down but only for a few seconds
and then it starts again. 
lm-profiler doesn't reveal any rapid disk activity - the same activity
as with old drive which worked well. 
What to do? 
 </blockquote>
 </div>
 
OK, let's check some things. Did you reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 when you
upgraded the drive, or did you somehow transfer the installation to the
new drive? And if you did a reinstall, are you sure you applied the
exact same settings as before? 
 
In a state where the machine is supposed to be in laptop mode (e.g. on
battery), could you run the following command: 
 
/usr/sbin/laptop_mode status 
 
and send us the output? 
 
Another thing you could try is using the non-lobotomized latest version
of laptop-mode-tools, which you can download from here: 
 
 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
 href="http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/debian">http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/debian</a> 
 
Ubuntu is great, but they have adapted laptop-mode-tools in ways that
are not always very helpful, and I'm not sure what the particular
quirks of your Ubuntu version are. :-) 
 
Cheers, 
Bart 
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