Danis Petkakis wrote: > 2009/2/7 Remy Blank <remy.bl...@pobox.com <mailto: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
>From the man page, right at the top no less. o_O NAME hdparm - get/set SATA/IDE device parameters It should work for SATA to. Dale :-) :-)