Stoker;231732 Wrote: > 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 Correct... see 'man hdparm' for the details.
Stoker;231732 Wrote: > 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? Not that I can find... Stoker;231732 Wrote: > One final question, are any changes I make to the spindown time > remembered if I re-boot? On my Ubuntu system, I edited "/etc/hdparm.conf" and added "hdparm" to runlevel2. I'd guess Debian will be similar. You'll need to use whatever runlevel is appropriate... Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38869 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
