momentary freeze ups

[Heinz Diehl]

On 14.04.2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

> You can hear the hard drive doing its seeks.  And, it happens right
> in the middle of using it.  But, I will check the drive's power
> setting.

Do a "hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda" and see if this helps. If it does, you
can avoid the problem by doing "hdparm -B 254" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
or wherever this file is located in your distribution (mine is F16).