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From:	wabenbau@×××××.com
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Manipulating a mobile external harddisk
Date:	Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:00:23
Message-Id:	`20160202180003.66e9914a@hal9000.localdomain`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] [OT] Manipulating a mobile external harddisk by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de

1	Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2
3	> Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk
4	> goes idle to prolong the lifetime ?
5	> Is it possible to do this with hdparm?
6
7	I have three external USB disks. Two of them are going to sleep
8	after a few minutes, one is always spinning.
9
10	All of them ignore the hdparm commands. That means I could not
11	change any of the disk parameters with hdparm.
12
13	--
14	Regards
15	wabe