meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk > goes idle to prolong the lifetime ? > Is it possible to do this with hdparm?
I have three external USB disks. Two of them are going to sleep after a few minutes, one is always spinning. All of them ignore the hdparm commands. That means I could not change any of the disk parameters with hdparm. -- Regards wabe