From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSTQV-0003Zj-Sc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:29:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41BB6E09EF; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.squareownz.org (static.185.64.4.46.clients.your-server.de [46.4.64.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A3EE092F for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.squareownz.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0B02F9C024E; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:27:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:27:18 +0200 From: napalm@squareownz.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Message-ID: <20120510132718.GA7824@squareownz.org> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <20120509112543.6021e1f8@khamul.example.com> <4FAA3E79.5010007@gmail.com> <20120509232806.495276ed@khamul.example.com> <4FAAEEB4.6090800@gmail.com> <4FAB04B7.8060306@gmail.com> <20120510115541.GA20233@squareownz.org> <4FABB6CA.9070503@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FABB6CA.9070503@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: b0e25e6b-f702-427c-979a-5280fcdc8eb3 X-Archives-Hash: dea97fbdb50c23a4feaeceb142a2eeca --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:38:34AM -0500, Dale wrote: >=20 > The default is to keep them all running and to not spin them down. I > have never had a Linux OS to spin down a drive unless I set/told it to. > You can do this tho. The command and option is: >=20 > hdparm -S /dev/sdX >=20 > X would be the drive number. There is also the -s option but it is not > recommended. >=20 > There is also the -y and -Y options. Before using ANY of these, read > the man page. Each one has it uses and you need to know for sure which > one does what you want. >=20 > Dale >=20 Awesome thanks very much, if I need to power down one of my drives I shall use hdparam! Does the kernel keep even unmounted drives spinning by default? Thank you Dale! --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQECAAYFAk+rwjYACgkQwma4ruuHSllTngQAm6ibs0atvdJg9K3SLNa2XOIW GGv/roIJ86paZ8GssyoaDVrM+IfsMC8O+CcxJUTodzh9QMZV+lAAu0mGW9YEv1xq JRTjmQKIMlORA9vmkF7DV5e7mfYEfjvPz3277Cyc0/tLSvP6mfdJ3v+6Pa69RTpJ l25CDHXG6Wy/An/1yQ0= =OqWW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft--