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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:12:04
Message-Id: 20120511010759.130b2d25@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? by Paul Hartman
1 On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
2
3 > On my HDDs, I cannot disable APM but I can disable spindown by
4 > changing the power-saving level to 254. I have a script in
5 > /etc/local.d/ which calls:
6
7 You don't need a script, add the options you need to /etc/conf.d/hdparm
8 and add hdparm to the default runlevel.
9
10 > hdparm -B 254 /dev/sd[abcdef]
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12 That doesn't work with my WD WD20EARX drives, which just report APM
13 disabled when I run it.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 Eagles may soar, but Wombles don't get sucked into jet engines

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