>Maybe this would help?
>
>http://staff.washington.edu/xyzzy/scsi.html
>
Thank you Jen! :-)
Appears to be 'xactly what I need.
Walt
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Maybe this would help?
http://staff.washington.edu/xyzzy/scsi.html
Jen
- Original Message -
From: "Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...
> hdparm seemed
hdparm seemed to be exactly what I was
looking for, but the -y (put in standby)
-C (current power status) and -S (set
sleep-when-idle timeout) all give this error:
/dev/sde:
Operation not permitted on a scsi drive.
Any more suggestions? I tried the newly-
learned 'apropos' looking for sleep
> Is there some command or function that I can use that tells a hard
> drive to spin down, etc?
Try 'man (heh) hdparm'.
The -y switch looks like what you want. -S and -C also look interesting.
However, this is an ide command, but there is this at the end:
Although this utility is in
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:39:24 -0800, Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm not even sure what to search for on this one... I have a 9 gb
>scsi drive that I actually only will need to spin up once every 24
>hrs or so, backup information onto it and go back to sleep.
>Is there some command or functi
I'm not even sure what to search for on this one...
I have a 9 gb scsi drive that I actually only will
need to spin up once every 24 hrs or so, backup
information onto it and go back to sleep.
Is there some command or function that I can
use that tells a hard drive to spin down, etc?
Thanks,
Wa
