Re: Recurrent disk activity every minute

[Jukka Marin <jukka.marin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 05:56:16PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> 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.

Does the system access the disk every minute, creating the need to
part the heads again and again?

  -jm