[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[ale] Wireless and HDD Questions
- Subject: [ale] Wireless and HDD Questions
- From: mhirsch at nubridges.com (Michael D. Hirsch)
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:20:29 -0400
On Friday 23 May 2003 04:47 pm, AMIT AGRAWAL wrote:
> Moreover I have a couple of quick questions :
>
> Q1. How to spin down the HDD on a Linux machine from the
> console mode ?
hdparm will do it.
Beware that hard drives have a tendency under linux to spin back up again.
I've never seen a good solution to keeping them spun down. One trick is
to use the "noatime" option on mount, but I don't know that that alone
will be enough.
Michael
_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale