Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 6, 2011 9:06 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6,

[gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Jarry
Hi, In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again when needed) in order to save a little power and prolong its life?

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again when needed) in order to save a little power and

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Dale
Jarry wrote: Hi, In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again when needed) in order to save a little power and

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Paul,   Would hdparm be advisable if the drive was part of a RAID? I suspect not.   I don't think this applies to the OP but for the sake of discussion why not include RAID as part of the solution, if possible. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Paul,   Would hdparm be advisable if the drive was part of a RAID? I suspect not.   I don't think this applies to the OP but for the sake

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either when starting to spin down or when one spins up slowly - and if mdraid didn't understand that all this stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:21:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?: My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either when starting to spin down or when one spins up slowly - and if mdraid didn't understand that all this stuff was taking

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Paul,   Would hdparm be advisable if the drive was part of a RAID?

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:21:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?: My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either when starting to spin down or when one spins up

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either when starting to spin down or when one

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Oct 6, 2011 9:06 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman My worry was that if the mdraid daemon