If I set it for both drives they spin down. I take it that's the time in seconds the system has to be idle for before they spin down?
What's the difference between idle and standby? On 11 September 2014 12:30, David Coppa <dco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Laurence Rochfort > <laurence.rochf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm running 5.5 on amd64. >> >> I have two non-identical SATA drives in softraid RAID 1 that never >> spin down, even when the system has been idle for hours. >> >> Should I expect them to automatically spin down when using soft raid >> and apmd -C, or do I have to script something with atactl? The BIOS >> doesn't mention drive power management specifically, but does have APM >> enabled and reports SMART for the drives. > > What happens with: > > # atactl wd0 setidle 5 > > ??
