On 12 Aug 2005 16:26:56 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 08/12/2005 12:20 PM, Jim Reith wrote: > I found that setting my three HDDs to spin down after 5 minutes gave me a > 10 degree drop in temps according to mbmon. That made the fans slow down > and made the ambient noise much less. I've also just bought replacement IDE > cables that are round so i won't have as many obstructions to case airflow > > Can you tell us how you set the drives to spin down after 5 minutes? I'd > like to do the same thing. Thanks.
<snip> > # allow the disks to spindown after 5 minutes of idle > /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda > /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb > /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdd I have SATA drives, so I can't do this. But thanks for the tip! --Dylan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
