How to turn off the power of hard drive?

Travis Fraser travis at snowpatch.net
Tue Jan 20 21:21:38 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:12, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> > I would like to know how to turn off the power of hard drive but *** not sleep
> > mode *** after a period of time such as the things just like Windows power
> > management?
> 
> As root:
> 
> $ hdparm -S60 /dev/hdX
> 
> will turn off hard drive X after 5 minutes.
Without laptop-mode like in my laptop, it seems that the drive never
gets to spin down for very long. And what do you do as for a SCSI drive?

Travis Fraser





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