*pondlife <pondlife_at_ntlworld.com> ha scritto*:
> Apologies for my grammar there! I meant to say:

Eh, eh! No problem: we all have a quite smart parser between the ears! ;-)

> We've found out what causes this, but it's not an easy fix.

Great! I'm sure that some way will be found, finally.
I'm quite whetted to "enter the matrix" of the firmware, but I'm so
busy and I miss embedded programming experience.

> If you enable dircache then the HD shouldn't spin up. If it does, let us
> know.

I will do this test. I expect to ear a very intense disk activity just
at the boot time and no more activity even browsing all the play tree
or different play lists (I never used this setting).

Please, don't surrender! :-)

P.S.: I would like to ask you what's the problem concern this, but I
imagine it's a question for the dev-ml, isn't it?

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