On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 15:08, Simon Males wrote: > I have a faulty (noisy) 20g drive which I wish to use for backup on my > desktop. Basically if I umount it, does it stop the drive spinning? I > remeber scaning some writings that on debian woody when powering down, > woody stops the hard drives from spinning.
look into hdparm Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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