There is no way to tell for certain if attempts to spin-down will work with your particular enclosures. Chipsets (and their capabilities) vary widely.
Matt On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:32:09AM +0200, Mircea Ciocan wrote: > Hi all, > > We want to use some standard USB 2.0 enclosures containing a 3.5" HDD > for some backup purposes, the ideea was that those guys could stay > attached and eventally moved to some other machine and so on, so far > everything is OK, there is only one problem I'd like to know of: > > The bloody HDDs gets HOT, like in extremely hot :(, because somehow > seem that they never spin down, I know about hdparam and the stuff that > I could try to spin it down, but ( and there is a big but) will that > stuff work nondistructively on USB mass storage devices as above, will > they be able to be spinned down without losing data, getting disconneted > from the USB bus and other horrors ( and of course, restarted again :) ??? > > If somebody could help with a definite answer on that issue, eventually > with some hdparm switches TESTED on such an external disk it will make > me very happy. > > Thank you for your time and season greetings, > > Mircea Ciocan > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver C: They kicked your ass, didn't they? S: They were cheating! -- The Chief and Stef User Friendly, 11/19/1997
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