Hi all I'd like to spin down all my sata hdds except the system drive with hdparm.
Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. When I put the discs to sleep manually with sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdc it works. But after changing the spindown_time in /etc/hdparm.conf, rebooting the system and waiting for more than an hour the drives doesn't sleep. (I checked it with sudo hdparm -C /dev/sd? and every disc is active/idle) One drive is completely dedicated to mythtv which was idle since rebooting so there shouldn't be any access to the disc. I sometimes read hdparm is only for ide drives and then I read it works as well with sata drives. Do I have to put a description block for each drive separately or is the global spindown_time fine? I think it would be nicer to have a 30 min timeout as standard and just exclude the system drive because when adding more drives they spind down too without adding a new block to hdparm.conf. Can I check the access to the discs from a log? Or maybe I should create a sudo hdparm -C /dev/sd? log which checks the drive states every 15 minutes or so? Cheers Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
