On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Laurence Rochfort
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If I set it for both drives they spin down. I take it that's the time
> in seconds the system has to be idle for before they spin down?

Exactly.

man 8 atactl

> What's the difference between idle and standby?

For what I've understood, standby puts the disk in a even more deep
sleep state than idle.

Btw, you can put the two commands into /etc/rc.local, so they will
survive a reboot.

Ciao!
David

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