Quote Originally Posted by fireflash View Post
It is the original drive, the Hitachi drive. I tried killing nas, waveservermain, rcamdmain (which seems to have killed my 'Ready' light ?!), and watchdog, and issued the command and it still spins right back up after a few seconds. I don't know what else to kill.
OK. There's one final place to look. Make sure "mount" shows nodiratime and noatime as below:

/dev/se/2 on /shares/MYVOLUME1 type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/se/2 on /opt type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime)

If these options are not set then any time an applications reads from the HDD the access time will be updated causing a write to the HDD.

You set these options with:

mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /shares/MYVOLUME1

- K.C.