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 1SSb77-0005ED-U7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 21:41:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79B24E09B7; Thu, 10 May 2012 21:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f181.google.com (mail-gg0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C94E062B for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnl1 with SMTP id l1so1601934ggn.40 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 14:39:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rXpCv3kJrepdSd/gw7Z9coZ6juaLoDD+A/eXN3BK/H4=; b=GpNrIk/CyvK87VII0FpvwOCUAplqDcga7Usovm2eTl67CYBjvy6F5WiljKRNux4Cr+ VgjPWwv479tmcYrj15rvlVygBa4FgoT/09UQXnNUswaoc8QgB32q8EXr5pfsWaItdXvG 7xuGh3uE6WLBMI5h0KrY66mWLKP/224teen/FjirhX/E4lbbP+chTWgphIsQ1tQKau+f Z/zAUYhlc4ULmdhmpG0qhE3kjMJUCck6vxtqjlK4R5eonT524QQuE4M0ydzbi+pkAqBx BOb12M3t/ONFdI9yPdcE2qOUSe31paYed1tz+PI+8FaRLWLXasqEKNPwOn4CDnpGAXvm UZtQ== Received: by 10.236.161.42 with SMTP id v30mr7071828yhk.127.1336685962877; Thu, 10 May 2012 14:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-107-56.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.107.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t36sm3545141anh.1.2012.05.10.14.39.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 May 2012 14:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FAC3588.7090609@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 16:39:20 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120510 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? 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> <20120510132718.GA7824@squareownz.org> In-Reply-To: <20120510132718.GA7824@squareownz.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0f92c39c-4b5d-4f9e-ba75-48db060e5f8b X-Archives-Hash: 39d4581646148934aa52de4376fbe164 napalm@squareownz.org wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:38:34AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> 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: >> >> hdparm -S /dev/sdX >> >> X would be the drive number. There is also the -s option but it is not >> recommended. >> >> 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. >> >> Dale >> > > 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! >From my experience, as I posted I have never had Linux spin down a drive without me telling it to or setting it up to do so. If you want that to be disabled as you have it in windows, the default settings should be fine. If you have a drive that is not being used, then you can use one of those commands to shut it down to save power, wear and tear or whatever. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"