Re: idle, standby, suspend harddisk

2006-02-27 Thread Pol Hallen
> After a "atacontrol detach" the disk spins down. Better umount it first > or the system will hang if you use that disk again. > You have to use atacontrol to attach it again. It's a very good idea! ;-) i'll do a script to umount fs and atacontrol detach.. well, how wait about 10 minutes of inac

Re: idle, standby, suspend harddisk

2006-02-27 Thread Kees Plonsz
Pol Hallen wrote on Monday 27 February 2006 12:18: > Hi all :-) > > i have a server with several hd always on > > i want idle hard disk after several minutes > > the bios of mother b. is not good for do this, and i'd like use a software > which atailde or others.. > > with ataidle i can idle m

idle, standby, suspend harddisk

2006-02-27 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) i have a server with several hd always on i want idle hard disk after several minutes the bios of mother b. is not good for do this, and i'd like use a software which atailde or others.. with ataidle i can idle my hd but how check if hd is really in idle mode? Are there others port