On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 7:59 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: > Could anyone tell me how to adjust my laptop sleep settings? I am running > a Dell Lattitude LS w/ Mandrake 9.0. In 8.2 the HD would go to sleep > (stop spinning) automatically. 9.0 leaves it on all the time. I am > thinking this will wear it and suck up my battery so I want to make it > stop spinning when the computer is inactive. > I know nothing about how to do this but if someone else does I'm sure I > can do it if they tell me :) > Thanks > Noah
There is a command called hdparm which can stop your HD spinning after a defined time. However there is not much point using it since the Ext3 file system does a write to the HD every 5 seconds. I have just spent days trying to tune the file system to be able to stop the HD without success. If anyone can actually do it I would be delighted to hear about it. derek
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