On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Laurence Rochfort <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 5.5 on amd64. > > I have two non-identical SATA drives in softraid RAID 1 that never > spin down, even when the system has been idle for hours. > > Should I expect them to automatically spin down when using soft raid > and apmd -C, or do I have to script something with atactl? The BIOS > doesn't mention drive power management specifically, but does have APM > enabled and reports SMART for the drives.
What happens with: # atactl wd0 setidle 5 ??
