Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750726AbVKSRlX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:41:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750727AbVKSRlX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:41:23 -0500 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:17854 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbVKSRlW (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:41:22 -0500 Message-ID: <437F63C1.6010507@perkel.com> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:41:21 -0800 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamfilter-host: darwin.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 11 Trying to save power consumption. I have a backup drive that is used only once a day to back up the main drive. So - why should I run it more that 10 minutes a day? What I'd like to do is keep it in an off state and then at night power it on, mount it up, do the backup, unmount it, and shut it down. Can I do that? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/