Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Good answer.
That's a much better solution than trying to
permanently turn off the hard drive.
The sleep state induced by hdparm still allows
the disk drive to be used as needed.
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