[vdr] Re: HD Spindown

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Tim Schröder wrote:
> 
> Am Don, 2003-02-06 um 13.32 schrieb Dennis Noordsij:
> > On Thursday 06 February 2003 14:26, you wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i want to get the HD in my vdr-box silent (when i am only watching TV),
> > > so i gave it a short suspend timeout with hdparm. Unfortunatly it is
> > > spinning up every few minutes. All what i found so far is a epg dump
> > > every 10 minutes (600 secs) in eit.c. put that to 2 hrs, but spinning up
> > > still goes on.
> > >
> > > Any ideas where additional disc access is performed ?
> > >
> > > thanks Tim
> >
> > Various kernel threads, flushing buffercache to disk, etc. You might have some
> > luck searching the archives, as someone has posted a solution in the past,
> > but you can also find it in some HOWTO :-)  (I'm sorry, I don't remember the
> > exact details).
> >
> No, it is really vdr. From linux side a got it fixed (journaled fs has
> to be mounted with noatime set).  spinning up only occurs if vdr is
> running.

VDR saves the EPG data every 10 minutes. See 'vdr --help' for how you can
avoid that.

Klaus
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