Bug 975647 - Hard drive spin down is set to some ridiculously short interval.
Summary: Hard drive spin down is set to some ridiculously short interval.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mate-power-manager
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Mashal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-19 03:12 UTC by James
Modified: 2013-07-30 20:09 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-06-20 00:06:36 UTC
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Description James 2013-06-19 03:12:05 UTC
I can hear my drive stopping and restarting constantly. In some cases the drive was on for less than 45 seconds before stopping again, only to restart less than 5 seconds later. The drive is a brand-new 2.5in SATA drive.

Also, all my changes to the power managements settings using mate power manager are ignored.

Comment 1 James 2013-06-20 00:06:36 UTC
It seems this is a drive problem as it exists in Windows as well and it ignores 'hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda'

Comment 2 James 2013-06-20 00:12:46 UTC
WDC WD5000BPVT for the curious

Comment 3 Mykola Dvornik 2013-07-30 20:09:34 UTC
I suspect it is actually a BUG. 

My drive does the same. From 'watch hdparm -B /dev/sda' and 'watch hdparm -M /dev/sda' it is evident that tuned alters these parameters frequently and completely neglects settings in 'Gnome Disks'. Sometimes it forces too small values for the APM. 

In pre-F19, everything worked fine . So I assume that the logic behind APM adjustments has been changed in the recent versions of tuned. As the result my 'Start/Stop count' has raised by about 10k since F-19 Alpha, which is really BAD. 

The funny thing is that tuned lets HDD to spindown when music and movies are played. For sure it is because of caching, but tuned should be aware of this kind of things.

WDC WD2500BEKT-75PVMT0 (WD Scorpio Black)
tuned-2.2.2-1.fc19


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