On 10/29/19 12:59 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >>> >>> You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one >>> can install it from testing (it is not advisable in general, but the >>> divergence between buster and testing is not that big right now) >>> wget it from >>> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hd-idle/hd-idle_1.05+ds-2_amd64.deb >>> or any other Debian mirror and edit /etc/default/hd-idle in order to >>> start the daemon. >>> See man hd-idle for the details. >> >> One could also write to debian-backports, CC: the maintainer and ask >> nicely for a backport ;)
It had been sitting in the backport queue at the moment of writing the email above as far as I remember. I just didn't know how long would it take until it is approved :) >> > Thanks for all this help, guys. Does anyone have any thoughts on why one > generation of an external disk cage wouldn't require this and just spun > down the disks automatically when idle, but the new one does require > incantations to do so? Bearing in mind that a Mac-using friend of mine > reports the same (new) model of cage does spin down the disks when > connected to a Mac without him having to have made any settings, so the > cage isn't against spinning down the disks or anything weird... There's > no reference at all to spinning down the disks in the cage's manual, but > there wasn't in the old generation's manual either. That's a complicated question, there are too many things which can influence a disk. See this answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=930796#42 It would be actually pretty cool if you could test the workarounds and post the results here. Best, Alex
