Re: KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 24 August 2010 14:31, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Mick writes:
>
>> On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> > BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird,
>> > they are not even mounted.
>>
>> From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044
>>
>> I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have
>> set up and p*sses me off.  o_O
>>
>> As soon as KDE starts up (even when waking up from suspend to ram) it
>> resets the drives.  I haven't found a way of telling it how to behave
>> (i.e. by respecting existing settings in hdparm).
>
> Argh, that's annoying. Thanks for the information. O well, first I
> setuid'ed hdparm to make it work as a user, then I reverted that back as I
> started it in /etc/init.d/local, and now I'm again setuid'ing it so I can
> set the settings from /etc/conf.d/hdparm in ~/.kde4/Autostart/.
>
> I filed a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248905
> You might want to vote for it so it gets some attention and will hopefully
> be fixed soon.

Thanks Wonko,

As reported on https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334393 the workaround of:

touch /etc/pm/power.d/harddrive

stops KDE4.4.4/5 from messing up the existing hdparm settings (at
least as far as acoustic management is concerned).  At least now I
don't have to listen this Seagate sata rattling all day!  :-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick