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 only in > standby... > And actually I can hear it spinning... It must be possible to power it > down completly no? > > Any ideas?
How about unmounting the device? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.04.22.14.25...@gmail.com