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

:-) :-)