On 06/11/2014 03:40 PM, thegeezer wrote: > 50 seconds is very small timeout, be wary of spinup/spindown cycles > which imho are worse than always spinning. For sure, I know, this was only for testing purposes, to see if it works. I don't want to wait ten minutes, or even an hour to see that it actually does not work :-) > > depending on what is accessing /dev/sdb you might find that it sleeps > then immediately is woken. lsof is your friend here. > this is how I do it (my time is ten mins) Nope, the filesystem isn't even mounted. > > # /etc/conf.d/hdparm > # or, you can set hdparm options for all drives > all_args="-S120" > > > then.. > # /etc/init.d/hdparm start And nope, it does not spin down.
It only spins down if I force it with hdparm -y Cheers, Ralf
