On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:12, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > The famous speaker who no one had heard of said: > > I would like to 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? > > As root: > > $ hdparm -S60 /dev/hdX > > will turn off hard drive X after 5 minutes. Without laptop-mode like in my laptop, it seems that the drive never gets to spin down for very long. And what do you do as for a SCSI drive? Travis Fraser