Are noflushd and laptop-mode meant to be used together? I was under the impression that noflushd was obsolete (it doesn't seem to be packaged for modern distro's anymore). Also, it seems like it is just doing the same thing as hdparm -S, isn't it? In any case, I tried it out, and it doesn't seem to want to work with my primary drive (the SATA), it says "No stats for hde. Ignorning." The other stuff (hdparm and laptop-mode.sh) is what I had already done and had not worked. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sy Beamont Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:14 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: idle HD spin down standby/sleep, laptop mode?? (seagate 7200.7) 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
