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Posted: Dec. 29 2006,15:31 QUOTE
I have installed DSL on my laptop and have set the bios so that the hard drive stops spinning after 2 min. But it keeps spinning within short. Is there a way to stop DSL accessing the harddrive after booting? The harddrive is very noisy and the laptop is only showing pics as a picture frame.
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Posted: Dec. 30 2006,19:58 QUOTE
You could look into this http://www.agol.dk/quietlinux/
and this
http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic

Or get a slower drive that's one reason I went with a 4gb rather then 10. Since my laptop has no fan to begin with the 4gb runs virtually silent also.

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Posted: Dec. 31 2006,23:44 QUOTE
You could try things out with 'hdparm'
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,20:50 QUOTE
Quote (beakmyn @ Dec. 30 2006,14:58)
You could look into this http://www.agol.dk/quietlinux/
and this
http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic

Or get a slower drive that's one reason I went with a 4gb rather then 10. Since my laptop has no fan to begin with the 4gb runs virtually silent also.

Thanks,

I tried the tips from QuietLinux, and that helped a little. The hdparm didn't make any difference at all.

Is there a way to find out which processes that access the HD? Or maybe create a ram-drive to write the log files to?
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,21:29 QUOTE
Ah right, forgot to mention the hdparm stuff only works on IDE drives (only newer versions contain support for other types afaik).

If you are using a frugal, you can use "toram" to load the 50mb image to the ramdisk, then the hdd won't be used afterwards.
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