Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 14 Aug 2005 06:18, Porco Rosso wrote: > >>Most of the parts(CPU fan,Chassis fans and Power unit fan) of my >>machine are quiet , but hard-disk drives make a little noise(maybe round >>noise of motor). >>And unfortunately my machine is near my bed. >>Therefore I would like to power off the machine temporally without >>shutting down the linux. >>But HDD's noises are not so unbearable. The noises aren't too big to >>sleep(although I feel a little bit uneasy...). >>So I adopt your suggestion. >>Thank you for your reply. >> > > It's certainly possible for hard drives to spin down if unused for a time, > but I don't know where this is set. I think it is probably a bios > setting, so check that first. If it's not there, try another thread with > the subject something like 'Spinning down hard drives'. > > Anne > hdparm will set the spindown time. If the drive supports it, it will also set Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) as well. Once you have the setting the way you want, edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks so they get set again if you have to reboot.
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