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 Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.
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