On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:38:39 Albrecht Mehl wrote: > I would like to use my opensuse 10.2 system on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum > board with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB HDS722516VLSA80 hard disk mostly > without the hd running, i.e. I imagine copying the files needed for my > daily work at the beginning of a session to a ram disk and then working > from there. At the end of such a script the hd will be turned off. But > ... I do not know how to accomplish this turning off. So for hints as > detailled as possible as to how to turn off the hd in a script I would > be very grateful.
I'm not sure if it works for SATA drives, but there is a tool for IDE drives called hdparm, and hdparm -Y /dev/<device> will put the disk in sleep mode. The man page says it should work with SATA as well, but I have never tried it. I did try it once with an IDE drive, and then it worked well Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
