anjames
September 12th, 2010, 07:48 PM
Hey folks,
Looking through the forums I find lots of people around playing with the settings of their disks to try optimizing how often they should be spun down, but as much as I've tried I haven't found any way of checking specifically how often a disk is spun up. I checked the man page for hdparm, but I can't find anything about querying the spin status of a disk.
I was hoping to log any disk spin status changes so that I could go through the history of a system and figure out how long disks were spun up to debug if they're getting brought out of standby unnecessarily, but I can't even figure out how to probe the status in the first place!
Any ideas?
Looking through the forums I find lots of people around playing with the settings of their disks to try optimizing how often they should be spun down, but as much as I've tried I haven't found any way of checking specifically how often a disk is spun up. I checked the man page for hdparm, but I can't find anything about querying the spin status of a disk.
I was hoping to log any disk spin status changes so that I could go through the history of a system and figure out how long disks were spun up to debug if they're getting brought out of standby unnecessarily, but I can't even figure out how to probe the status in the first place!
Any ideas?