Way to check if IDE drive is using power management

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Wed May 19 11:16:55 UTC 2004


On Wed, 19 May 2004, Michael Boord wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to check if your IDE drives
> are using power management?
> 
> Like in Windows you can setup a inactivity time.
> After that the drive stops spinning.

Look at what you can set with hdparm.  Not sure you can check it though...

jh

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