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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:37:08 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Marcelo Borges Ribeiro <marcelo@datacom-telematica.com.br>
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Subject: Re: making an ide hd sleep
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Hi!

> 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?

Get noflushd (see freshmeat). Its more clever than hdparm -S.
								Pavel
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"I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it."
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