On Wednesday 21 January 2004 20:48, Rick Stevens wrote: > Kevin Bowen wrote: > > I'm trying to get fedora to spin down my primary drive when idle, > > but I can't seem to get it to go into standby mode. When I use > > hdparm to put it into 'sleep' mode, it does sleep very briefly, > > waking up after a few seconds. When I use standby mode (either > > The system constantly flushes dirty cache buffers to the disk so it > never has a chance to spin down. A google search for "noflushd" > should reveal a daemon that covers this issue that you can install. Also setting this up recently I found this message very helpful: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-21/0022.html a non-encoded version of the laptop.sh script is at http://lwn.net/Articles/32520/ add your hdparm commands to /etc/rc.local and that should do it. enjoy
