Hard disk led won't stop blinking

AlleyTrotter · 10-22-2005, 02:48 PM

I have recently installed 10.2 on my hdb and am trying things out before installing on my primary drive
The led for my disk blinks about twice a second when using the kde desktop, maybe all of X not sure
I had this problem once before when I did an upgrade but it went away after a clean install.
I have a found two similiar problems when googling but no solution
does anyony know how to stop this I'm sure it will shorten disk life
TNX

Cheiron · 10-22-2005, 04:13 PM

I don't know if it'll help or not but you may wanna try turning on DMA on this drive.
hdparm -d /dev/hdaX - where hdaX is your root partition.

AlleyTrotter · 10-22-2005, 04:30 PM

dma is on by default on my b drive
thanks but no help

Cheiron · 10-22-2005, 04:33 PM

How much ram is in your box ? Could this be that it uses swap all the time ... ?

AlleyTrotter · 10-22-2005, 04:36 PM

1 gig

Loslobo · 10-22-2005, 09:15 PM

AlleyTrotter, if you're running KDE as your main desktop, I've found that the KDED media manager for KDE startup services tends to poll the HD frequently even if the service is not being used.

Try this. At your KDE Control Center, locate Service manager (under KDE components). Find KDED media manager in startup services, uncheck the box and stop the service, then hit apply. And see if that works.

Depending on your network setup, you may want to turn off other auto startup services.

AlleyTrotter · 10-22-2005, 10:22 PM

Thanks
LosLobo
The media manager was the kulprit
AlleyTrotter