On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:11:00 +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote:

> I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes
> some backups, and then umounts it.

> I'd save a lot of electrical power (and I think also disk health) if
> I was able to turn on and off electrical power from the usb
> port.

You could use hdparm to put the drive to sleep.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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