idle, standby, suspend harddisk

2006-02-27 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) i have a server with several hd always on i want idle hard disk after several minutes the bios of mother b. is not good for do this, and i'd like use a software which atailde or others.. with ataidle i can idle my hd but how check if hd is really in idle mode? Are there others

Re: idle, standby, suspend harddisk

2006-02-27 Thread Kees Plonsz
Pol Hallen wrote on Monday 27 February 2006 12:18: Hi all :-) i have a server with several hd always on i want idle hard disk after several minutes the bios of mother b. is not good for do this, and i'd like use a software which atailde or others.. with ataidle i can idle my hd but

Re: idle, standby, suspend harddisk

2006-02-27 Thread Pol Hallen
After a atacontrol detach the disk spins down. Better umount it first or the system will hang if you use that disk again. You have to use atacontrol to attach it again. It's a very good idea! ;-) i'll do a script to umount fs and atacontrol detach.. well, how wait about 10 minutes of