Re: Recurrent disk activity every minute

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mayuresh%acm.org@localhost (Mayuresh) writes:

>Precisely, I too had this question - how do I check current value of apm.

The current value of apm is returned by the ATA IDENTIFY command.

atactl <device> identify will issue that command, but doesn't
print all information returned by the drive. As atactl can set
the value, it's probably a good idea to make it print the current
value too.

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