Re: powerdown harddisk

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:33 -0700, geertsky wrote: I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly. I'm booting from a usb stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like to preserver as much as possible. I tried hdparm -Y /dev/sda but hdparm -C /dev/sda reports it's

Re: powerdown harddisk

Hello List, On 22/04/11 16:25, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:33 -0700, geertsky wrote: I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly. I'm booting from a usb stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like to preserver as much as possible. I tried hdparm -Y

powerdown harddisk

Hello group, I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly.  I'm booting from a usb stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like to preserver as much as possible. I tried hdparm -Y /dev/sda but hdparm -C /dev/sda reports it's only in standby... And actually I can hear it

Re: powerdown harddisk

Dne, 20. 04. 2011 21:06:33 je geertsky napisal(a): Any ideas? IIRC (it's been some time) the combination of -B and -S parameters used to work for my IDE drives. Of course, you must first make sure that *nothing whatsoever* (such as the Gnome automounter and the like) is accessing the