Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

[Danis Petkakis <dpetka2001@gmail.com>]

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you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?

2009/2/7 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>

> still mounted.
> waking it up if it's
> almost always something
> put it too sleep. There's
> umount it before you
> Usually, you have to
>
> Danis Petkakis wrote:
>
>> ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if
>> the disk is in sleep
>> mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up
>> again...also
>> 'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with
>> 'hdparm -S12 /dev/sda'
>> but couldn't tell whether it is working or not...how can i make sure it
>> actually works?
>>
>> 2009/2/7 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com <mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com>>
>>
>>    Danis Petkakis wrote:
>>     > 2009/2/7 Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com
>>    <mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com> <mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com
>>
>>    <mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com>>>
>>     >
>>     >     Danis Petkakis wrote:
>>     >     > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing
>>    as a power
>>     >     > saving scheme as far as hard disks are
>>     >     > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they
>>     >     are not
>>     >     > being accessed after a defined
>>     >     > period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that
>>     >     would be
>>     >     > really appreciated...
>>     >
>>     >     If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not
>>     >     containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more
>>     >     specifically the
>>     >     -S option.
>>     >
>>     >     If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop),
>>     >     look at
>>     >     app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools.
>>     >
>>     >     -- Remy
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > does hdparm work on sata hard disks aswell? because i couldn't find
>>     > such an option
>>     > in sdparm
>>     >
>>     > Danis
>>
>>     From the man page, right at the top no less.  o_O
>>
>>    NAME
>>          hdparm - get/set SATA/IDE device parameters
>>
>>    It should work for SATA to.
>>
>>    Dale
>>
>>    :-)  :-)
>>
>>
>>
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