On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:16:33PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: > Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun > down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :(
Over the years I've tried to sort this out without success. I'd suggest an external enclosure (eSATA?) so you can unmount, and actually turn off when you don't need it. I don't know what happens to debian if you turn off an eSATA-connected drive though. USB should be fine but then you may not get SMART notification (see a recent thread). Of course, there's always good'ol SCSI. Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup over rsync or NFS, and turn it off. If it does wake-on-lan you could script it all from your main computer. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
