> Robert <RobertCL@iname.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, April 2, 2008 3:37 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > On 04/01/2008 10:13 PM, glenhawk@optusnet.com.au wrote:
> >> I have recently noticed a strange phenomenon where occasionally I get
> >> video freezing then (in the resulting silence) I hear a HDD spin-up 
> and
> >> the video continues.
> >> It only happens very occasionally and I haven't been able to 
> establish a
> >> pattern of events (other than being able to hear a HDD start to 
> spin).
> >> My initial assumption is that it may be buffering footage to RAM,
> >> spinning down the HDD and then not spinning it up again in time to
> >> prevent the freeze. Any other thoughts?
> >> I will continue looking into it myself but at this stage I cannot 
> even
> >> think of any keywords to google.
> >
> > Are you running in laptop mode?
> >
> > Mike
> 
> Check the output of something like hddparm -S /dev/hd<your drive> to see
> what the spindown settings for your hard drive are.  Check that -S is 
> the
> right parameter as well!
> 
> You might want to have a look in your bios for sleep / power management
> settings as well.
> 
> Robert.

thanks for the tip,
I'll let you know how I go.