-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 05:51, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > know how to turn off the power of hard drive but *** not sleep mode *** > > after a period of time such as the things just like Windows power > > management? > Can you explain what's the difference between harddrive sleep mode and > what Windows[tm] does by power management? I think he meant he just wants a spindown on the HDD, not to sleep the whole computer. hdparm is your friend in that case, there is a -S n switch which sets the \spindown timeout'. man hdparm for more. Word of warning, I set -S 0 on an old laptop drive, it subsequently spun down immediately after each IO action :-) Not sure if that's par for the course or just a weird one but I now avoid -S 0. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADPWFjKeDCxMJCTIRAmeBAJ4o5X4+fl8A8+91eQoV6XkV0ULJkQCffqPN 6n6+oFm0sRO7r4h60ENv9E4= =4AnY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
