HDD powersaving at music playing.

Good day. I want that my HDD be turned off most the time. I have laptop-mode installed, and tuned as seems me good, but there is one problem that I think prevents it from stopping - when music is playing, how I can load a lot of files into RAM so that a mplayer would not read from the HDD?

Re: HDD powersaving at music playing.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good day. how I can load a lot of files into RAM so that a mplayer would not read from the HDD? something like $ cat [list of files] /dev/null should cache the files. If you have enough unused ram they will stay in

Re: HDD powersaving at music playing.

Thank You for Your time and answer, ludovico: something like $ cat [list of files] /dev/null should cache the files. If you have enough unused ram they will stay in memory. I want to use 1 gb for that only - latter another 1 gb should be read from HDD (it should awake from sleep). Is it