2009/2/7 Remy Blank <remy.bl...@pobox.com> > Danis Petkakis wrote: > > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power > > saving scheme as far as hard disks are > > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not > > being accessed after a defined > > period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that would be > > really appreciated... > > If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not > containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more specifically the > -S option. > > If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop), look at > app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools. > > -- Remy > > does hdparm work on sata hard disks aswell? because i couldn't find such an option in sdparm
Danis
