atacontrol spindown

[Daniel C. Dowse]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
Alexander Popov <aopopov at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> With FreeBSD 7.1 I've started using atacontrol spindown for my secondary disks (i.e. disks that are accessed very infrequently). Everything seemed to work nice until I noticed in my "daily security run output" list of kernel messages that suggests that disks get awaken every night at 3 am. Could someone suggest what could trigger my disks to wake up?
> 

Hi Alexander,

maybe it is cron when it runs  the daily security checks so it checks
for the disk? Or have a look at your cronjobs  

with best regards

D. Dowse

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