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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On 08/12/2005 12:20 PM, Jim Reith wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Put a piece of red plastic over the two
leds and now I get a subtle<br>
lavender glow from them</blockquote>
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I use a bit of electrical tape over my blindingly blue LED.
Works great.</blockquote>
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My wife really likes purple so the red over blue had a high WAF
8^)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I found that setting my three HDDs to
spin down after 5 minutes gave me a<br>
10 degree drop in temps according to mbmon. That made the fans slow
down<br>
and made the ambient noise much less. I've also just bought
replacement IDE<br>
cables that are round so i won't have as many obstructions to case
airflow</blockquote>
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Can you tell us how you set the drives to spin down after 5 minutes?
I'd like to do the same thing. Thanks.</blockquote>
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--Dylan</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>__________</blockquote>
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<div>This is in my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, which is in a different
place than the above how-to points to. The first 240 numbers represent
5 second intervals so 60*5 = 300 = 5 minutes. The 240 in the how-to is
20 minutes. I do notice that my hda drive doesn't sleep or at least
not when I'm checking it but the other two do. I have a three disk lvm
set up including most of the first disk and all of the other two (all
200gb Maxtors)</div>
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<div># allow the disks to spindown after 5 minutes of idle<br>
/sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda<br>
/sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb<br>
/sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdd<br>
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<div># /sbin/hdparm -C /dev/hdd<br>
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/dev/hdd:<br>
drive state is: standby</div>
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