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 1SSdSm-0006e4-MR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 00:12:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34134E0A6C; Fri, 11 May 2012 00:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDD721C025 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 00:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A521580295 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 01:08:05 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 01:07:59 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Message-ID: <20120511010759.130b2d25@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: 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> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs39 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; boundary="Sig_/suUJtfclCsvr3CnnLVzBOBP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 758cf251-6b99-4563-be57-8493e6698cb5 X-Archives-Hash: bdd105e3cd9dc2a66a14d261508846d0 --Sig_/suUJtfclCsvr3CnnLVzBOBP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On my HDDs, I cannot disable APM but I can disable spindown by > changing the power-saving level to 254. I have a script in > /etc/local.d/ which calls: You don't need a script, add the options you need to /etc/conf.d/hdparm and add hdparm to the default runlevel. > hdparm -B 254 /dev/sd[abcdef] That doesn't work with my WD WD20EARX drives, which just report APM disabled when I run it. --=20 Neil Bothwick Eagles may soar, but Wombles don't get sucked into jet engines --Sig_/suUJtfclCsvr3CnnLVzBOBP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+sWGQACgkQum4al0N1GQO+ZACgzWZbQNF2oFKBO1cyi0UVJBac zJEAn0uqbRWuo1lileomMVRGXlWXka49 =lBqd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/suUJtfclCsvr3CnnLVzBOBP--