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