momentary freeze ups

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/14/2012 05:28 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> 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).

Hmmmm.  This completely disables power management.  It will either help
or do nothing.  I will try it out.

SL6.2x64 /dev/sda is an LSI (semi) hardware raid controller
FC16x64 /dev/sda is a SATA drive

On my SL 6.2x64, I notice the problem when I first start up and go
to check my web mail.  I will get to a certain point and Firefox
will freeze up, I look down and my fancy high efficiency White LED
hard drive lamp will be flashing away.  When the the flashing
stops, Firefox wakes back up.

Thank you for the tip!

-T