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Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
>> if you have an IDE drive try "hdparam -S 1 /dev/hda".
>
> Be aware that all the starting and stopping can be bad for the drive.

Also, mount the disks with the "noatime" option in order to prevent
unnecessary spin up.