[gull] hdparm -S

[Marc SCHAEFER]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:04:35AM +0100, Erik Rossen wrote:
> You need to be sure that no process is writing/flushing to the disk
> every 5 seconds or less before the disk will spin down and stay down.  I

There is also a daemon called noflushd which has this functionnality.
It allows the disk to be mounted rw, however might have issues with
journaling filesystems.

Of course the impact of a system crash is higher on your data.