Re: Recurrent disk activity every minute

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:59:15PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> In the old times, the disks used to park the heads on a safe zone to
> protect the recording area from head crashes, should the disk experience
> shocks while operating.  I don't know if the modern disks are doing the
> same.

I think it's the frequency (every minute) that is a bit annoying. I don't
think it is done so by all modern drives. Only some specific models do
this.

Mayuresh.