On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:28:42 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Roger Sherman wrote: > > > 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... > > > > > Sridhar, someone just sent me a note suggesting that my thanks to you was > less than sincere...hope you didn't take it that way, since without you I > wouldn't even have known about hdparm. Thanks again!
Less than sincere? No, I didn't take it that way at all. Don't worry about it :) > peace, > > Rog > > "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I > hit him" -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds.
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