On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > OK, I did this: > > > > hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda > > hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb > > > > to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it > > would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on > > either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? > > > > I don't think there's meant to be a space between the "S" and the number. Here's > what I use: > > hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda > > You can ignore the "c1d1" here. Notice, however, the "S242" (242 = 1 hour) on > the end of the tag. > > Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I > don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try > setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else > (including X) running. > > Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is > polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with > mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't > know about the other journalling FSs.
Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... peace, Rog "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him"
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
