[geeks] Zombie Disk Sleep

Edward Chase geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Oct 11 15:27:02 CDT 2001


I'm not following you here...

Your hard drive sleeping after a period of inactivity?

If so, are you sure it's linux doing it?  How about your BIOS?  I've not 
had any problems with any of my linux servers, but I make sure the BIOS 
power management is disabled.


At 03:47 PM 10/11/2001 -0400, Big Endian wrote:
>Is there ANY unix system that has solved the disk sleep unkillable 
>problem?  I'm having to reboot a server because of buggy software messing 
>with the drive(damn linux)... and I don't like that.  I can't change the 
>os but I'd like to know if there is one that has solved this...
>
>daniel
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