ACPI and hard drive spindown

Plexroth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 77

Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to spin down my hard drives after a given period. I have ACPI in my kernel. Suse had a nice little app called kpowersave. I'm looking for something similar.

I've looked through the forums and have only found HOWTO's for software suspend. Can somebody point me in the right direction for spinning down my hard drives?

lbrtuk · l33t Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 910

You don't need ACPI to spin down hard disks. hdparm can do this for you. Read the manpage, specifically the -S flag. (and -y and -Y)

Plexroth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 77

Excellent. Talk about barking up the wrong tree. In the man page now.

Thanks!

rmh3093 · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:

if you use cpudyn u can set the spindown with that also........ if you have DMA enabled u shouldnt need to set anything with hdparm so why not use cpudyn instead, then u have 1 program that does 2 things instead of 2 programs that do 1
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