you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep? because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
2009/2/7 Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> > still mounted. > waking it up if it's > almost always something > put it too sleep. There's > umount it before you > Usually, you have to > > Danis Petkakis wrote: > >> ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if >> the disk is in sleep >> mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up >> again...also >> 'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with >> 'hdparm -S12 /dev/sda' >> but couldn't tell whether it is working or not...how can i make sure it >> actually works? >> >> 2009/2/7 Dale <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> Danis Petkakis wrote: >> > 2009/2/7 Remy Blank <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] >> >> <mailto:[email protected]>>> >> > >> > 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 >> >> :-) :-) >> >> >> > >
