If your bios does not do this for you (like all my lrp boxen - old ibm pc) then the tool for you is hdparm.
I pulled hdparm from a debian slink install. It allows you to change (and potentially muck up) you hd's parameters. However, a simple hdparm -Y /dev/hda puts my drive right to sleep. I have hdparm in a small utilities package that includes iptraf and top that I can send you off list if you wish, or just the hdparm. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ant Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: [leaf-user] power down the hard disk after use > hi, > > for speed on one of my test routers i boot from a hard drive when it is > finnished booting i would like to power it down so the box makes less noise > and uses less power ( this is an absolute must in todays energy conscious > society :-) ) could i put something in one of the init files so when it > has read everything from harddisk it can just switch it off? > > does any one have any ideas? > > thanks > antken > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
