On 27/10/17 20:46, Pat Riehecky wrote:
On 10/27/2017 02:17 PM, D Greig wrote:
On 27/10/17 17:24, D Greig wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for help on how to stop/disable the HDD spin down option
I should add that the laptop has a fresh(yesterday) install of SL7.4.
"hdparm" was not present on the system, so I installed it from SL repo.
Now I am unsure as to the safest way to use it for the task.
In the past spindown is disabled by default.
This should probably get you going:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hdparm#Persistent_configuration_using_udev_rule
Hi Pat,
That led to a fix.
Many thanks.
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
Sorted it.
now:
[root@mu dg]# hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
APM_level = off
[root@mu dg]# hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
APM_level = off
I can understand spindown might be useful on battery, quite dangerous on AC.
There used to be an option in "power manager", but not on SL7.4.
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Best Regards,
D Greig
