drive spin for the impatient

["daniel" <dan netgenetix com>]

you know how a lot of hard drives are designed to "spin down" when they're
not being used?  is there a way to turn that off in redhat 7.3?  the machine
is being used by multiple people in the office as a db/file/web server and
when activity on it stops for only a few minutes, the "spin up" sequence
takes far too long.

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daniel a. g. quinn
starving programmer

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