Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Andrea Momesso wrote:
You could use hdparm to put the drive to sleep.
I get something like this:
cubotto ~ # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
issuing sleep command
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Invalid exchange
How about hdparm -y /dev/sdb
?
AFAIR hdparm doesn't work on usb drives, as they use the SCSI transport
with a SCSI to ATA translation on a protocol bridge chip in the usb
enclosure.
You would think to use sdparm then, but the translation is apparently
minimal, so unfortunately you can't do things like spin down, etc.
I would guess you could unload the usb modules (uhci, ehci) but then you
would loose all usb...
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