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| From: | Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand | ||
| Date: | Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:55:00 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200811262354.52962.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand by Andrea Momesso |
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| 1 | On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Andrea Momesso wrote: |
| 2 | > I have an usb external disk attached to a machine running |
| 3 | > gentoo. |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes |
| 7 | > some |
| 8 | > backups, and then umounts |
| 9 | > it. |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | > I'd save a lot of electrical power (and I think also disk health) if |
| 14 | > I |
| 15 | > was able to turn on and off electrical power from the usb |
| 16 | > port. |
| 17 | > |
| 18 | |
| 19 | I would play around with the stuff in /sys/bus/usb |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand | Andrea Momesso <momesso.andrea@×××××.com> |