On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: > I am trying to set up hdparm to put my hard drive to sleep after a certain > timout (the -S option, I think it is). I thought it would be prudent to go > through and make certain that my hardware reacted OK before I set it up, not > really expecting any problems. "hdparm -y /dev/hd[ab]" works fine. "hdparm > -Y /dev/hda" works fine. However, "hdparm -Y /dev/hdb" produces an error > message something like > > hdparm: hdb: drive read status 0xff { BUSY }
Doc, it hurts when I do this. Then don't do that. If -y is ok, then -S should be ok. If -Y gives you problems, maybe your hardware doesn't support it. > My third question (which is actually not an hdparm question, but more > general and I haven't been able to find docs): how would I get this > hypothetical timeout to get set at boot time? /etc/rc.boot/hwtools Note: I took out -u and -m on my system because they caused some corruption. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to an | | actual message is purely accidental. |