[Wylug-help] hard drive sleep? .

[Dick W]

Hmm i think im going to have to
get two sata caddies and swap them out depending what os i want

as hdparm jsut isn't playing
but thank you for the idea


On 21/10/2007, Don Magee <don at leedsweb.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> hdparm may do what you want. But it doesn't work properly with SATA
> drives on my machines.
>
> Try something like:
>
> hdparm -Y /dev/hda              to turn it off
> or
> hdparm -S 20 /dev/hda           to set a low spin down time
>
>
>
> Don Magee
>
>
>
>
> Dick W wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > not sure if this is possible or not
> >
> > but this is the situation
> > I have my desktop pc with 2 hard drives
> > 1*500gb (Gentoo linux)
> > 1*120gb (windows & play bsd install)
> >
> > now when running windows for some reason cooling isn't an issue
> > but when running linux the pc seems to over heat very quickly  and as
> use
> > windows not very often and for games
> >
> > so to save the life exp and reduce heat from the 120gb hard drive is
> there a
> > method to turn it off?
> > or a standby that works better then the bios one
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
> >
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