[alexpigment]

I've got Eden Beta 3 and have been meaning to post about this for a while now: I've noticed that if my Acer Revo 1600 has been idle for a while, when I try to play a video it takes a bit of time to start up. Subsequent videos start up fine. For what it's worth, I believe this happened in 9.04 but I hadn't seen it in Dharma. Is there an Nvidia power management setting that needs to be enabled somewhere?

[teeedubb]

Sounds like your drives are spinning down when idle. You can check what state a disk is in using the command:

sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdX

[alexpigment]

I'll do this when I get home. FWIW, none of the content is on the machine running XBMC. It's all networked, so if you're talking about the media drives spinning down, this shouldn't be a factor.