Re: hdparm and disk access

2004-07-16 Thread Robert William Hutton
Forrest Humphrey wrote: [snip] Okay, now say I've used hdparm to specify that my 2 hard drives in the box should spin down after, say 5 minutes: hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb [snip] I know it could be detrimental to the drives if they are spinning up and down all the time. Also, is t

Re: hdparm and disk access

2004-07-16 Thread John Summerfield
Forrest Humphrey wrote: I am getting wireless Internet access from my college and I am wanting to put Debian on an old AMD K6-2 to serve as my Internet gateway for the rest of my computers. However, I want this box to run on as little power as possible so my question is one from more of a hardware

hdparm and disk access

2004-07-15 Thread Forrest Humphrey
I am getting wireless Internet access from my college and I am wanting to put Debian on an old AMD K6-2 to serve as my Internet gateway for the rest of my computers. However, I want this box to run on as little power as possible so my question is one from more of a hardware perspective I guess. I