[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

mythtv at blandford.net mythtv at blandford.net
Sun Aug 24 16:06:28 UTC 2008


Friedrich Clausen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37 AM, mythtv at blandford.net
> <mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is a little off topic, but I am hopeful I will get some good ideas.
>>
>> I have a few mythtv frontends running minimyth as well as a fedora  9
>> backend+frontend combination.
>>
>> I use hdparm to spin down the mythtv disks when they are not in use.
> 
> Unfortunately, I am not really answering your question here but I how
> do you determine when the disks are not in use?


Actually, you don't have to.  Using hdparm, the drives will monitor 
themselves and spindown when they aren't in use.

Michael


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