[Wylug-help] hard drive sleep? .

[Jim Jackson]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Dick W wrote:

> 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

why what is happenning? I've used hdparm for set spindown on IDE disks for
some while and not had too many problems. How ever one of the problems I
have had is with controlling a SLAVE disk on an IDE cable. How are your
disks connected?



> 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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