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
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.
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
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.
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote:
Try installing drivetweak.
It is on CD3
19, 2001 5:48 PM
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|Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under
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parameters..
rgds
Frank
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote:
Fire up webmin, then go to hardware
of your best results and use those parameters..
OK man, thanks! :-)
rgds
Frank
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:43:55 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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I don't think my hard drives
on the vrious options as well.
rgds
Frank
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:28:42 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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,
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