[mythtv-users] Hard-drive spindown when idle?

[Greg Woods]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 10:24 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> . With hdparm you can configure this.

I've done that and it works well.


> The biggest problem with spindown in mythtv is getting mythtv to stop
> looking at drives periodically. Unless something changed recently one
> requirement was to disable the upnp server in mythtv.

You may also need to disable smartd (some distros enable this by
default).

--Greg