pawel gladki

Hello,

I'm a linux newbie - I installed Fedora Core 3 on my PC last week.
Everything went fine, but I have one small problem... Fedora is
installed on a new 80 GB harddisk, but - just in case - I've decided not
to throw away my old HD with Windows. Since I've copied all my data from
the old disk to the new one, I don't use it very often and - because it
works rather loudly and I don't think that I'll be accessing that disk
more often than once a couple of days - I intend to spin it down. For
that purpose I've used hdparm witn -S + some number or with -y option -
and here is my problem. The disk is spinning down just fine, but after
approximately 30 minutes is starting again - just for one second - and
again spinning down and so on - in (more or less) half an hour cycles.
I've tried to unmount it (it is only one big partition mounted as a NTFS
file system), but the problem remained the same. I suppose that using -Y
option would solve the problem, but then restarting the whole system
just to read something from the disk seems quite inconvenient. Any
suggestions...?

With regards

Pawel Gladki