[Wylug-help] hard drive sleep? .

[Jim Jackson]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Dick W wrote:

> HIya
>
> Both Drives are SATA so this might be affecting it.
> I do the command and  I can hear the drive spin down  then spin back up with
> almost no delay

Somethings accessing it! That's why it spins back up.
You now need to be a detective to find out what is accessing it and stop
it or arrange that the access is less adhoc.

>
> drives are connected to and sata port each
> and ide 0 for a 500mb compact flash
> ide 1 has a cdrw
>
>
> On 22/10/2007, Jim Jackson <jj at fomp.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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