Re: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Roger Sherman
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

Re: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:53:02 -0400 (EDT) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

Re: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Roger Sherman
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

Re: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2.

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Franki
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
19, 2001 5:48 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down | | | | |rgds | | |Frank Hauptle. | | | |Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under |partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. | |you can modify your hdparm settings

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Franki
parameters.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Fire up webmin, then go to hardware

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Roger Sherman
of your best results and use those parameters.. OK man, thanks! :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down

Re: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:43:55 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:17:35 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think my hard drives

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Roger Sherman
on the vrious options as well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards

Re: [newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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

[newbie] HD spin down

2001-10-18 Thread Roger Sherman
I don't think my hard drives are spinning down when I leave the machine unattended for a while. I like to leave the PC on pretty much 24/7, so obviously it would be good for the lives of the hard drives if they were to spin down. Can anyone tell me what to set to get them to do that? peace,