Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:01:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:01:26 -0500 Received: from natpost.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.65]:40437 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:01:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3C0F9629.2040002@korseby.net> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:00:41 +0100 From: Kristian Peters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011203 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Borges Ribeiro CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: making an ide hd sleep In-Reply-To: <002d01c17e48$6df98a20$1300a8c0@marcelo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcelo Borges Ribeiro wrote: > Hi, I?d like to know if it's possible to put an ide hd to sleep after (for > example) 15 min. idle (i don?t know if an hd under linux stays idle that > amount of time. ). I tried mount -o noatime and hdparm -S 150 /dev/hda, but > it seems that when it sleeps it starts working after a few seconds (when it > sleeps!). Is there a way to have this feature under linux? When your /var is located somewhere on /dev/hdaX probably not. My syslog makes disc access every few seconds (strangely even without writing something..) Disabling syslog might help, but that isn't an issue. So my drive wake up immediately after went to sleep. But for other drives there should be no problem. *Kristian - 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/