Hi Mflint Thanks for the (very quick) reply. I've apt-got and installed hdparm and I can check the status of my drives with:
hdparm -C /dev/hdxx I find that my music drive /dev/hda1 is in standby mode, which the man page suggests is spun down. The other drive (/dev/hdb1) is showing as "active/idle" which (I think) is still spinning, which is what I'd expect since I guess just running commands from a terminal will access the operating system drive. Is there a way to query the spin down parametes? I can use the -S switch to set the time out but I can see no way to get the current time out period from the drive? One final question, are any changes I make to the spindown time remembered if I re-boot? -- Stoker --ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stoker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8264 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38869 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
