On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 15:08, Simon Males wrote:
> I have a faulty (noisy) 20g drive which I wish to use for backup on my
> desktop. Basically if I umount it, does it stop the drive spinning?
If it's an IDE drive, then
hdparm -y /dev/hdb
(or whatever the appropriate device is) will spin it down. Use it at the
end of your backup script!
Noisy is one thing. Faulty another, as you point out, but *increased*
noise (especially grinding noises, lol) are a bad sign. You sure you
want to be using this thing as a backup disk?
Question: is there an equivalent to hdparm for SCSI disks?
AfC
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