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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:11:00 +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote: |
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> > I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes |
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> > some backups, and then umounts it. |
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> > I'd save a lot of electrical power (and I think also disk health) if |
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> > I was able to turn on and off electrical power from the usb |
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> > port. |
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> You could use hdparm to put the drive to sleep. |
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I get something like this: |
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cubotto ~ # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb |
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/dev/sdb: |
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issuing sleep command |
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HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Invalid exchange |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time. |
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Momesso (TopperH) Andrea |
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http://topperh.blogspot.com |
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Jabber: topper_harley@××××××.org |
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