<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, <a href="mailto:mythtv@blandford.net">mythtv@blandford.net</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:mythtv@blandford.net">mythtv@blandford.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Also, I am aware I can use hdparm, but does that mean that unless I manually<br>
>> spin down the drives with hdparm, they will remain spinning at top speed?<br>
>> Seems to me that Windows knows how to do this automatically; I figured linux<br>
>> did as well. There must be a way.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Use hdparm as was previously suggested. If you read the man page, it<br>
> will tell you how to configure the drives to spin down after a set<br>
> period of time of inactivity.<br>
><br>
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</div>Here is what I have in my local.start file<br>
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hdparm -S 250 /dev/sda<br>
hdparm -S 250 /dev/sdb<br>
hdparm -S 250 /dev/sdc<br>
hdparm -S 250 /dev/sdd<br>
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This sets my drives to have a 5 hour spin down time.<br>
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John<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br>I have mine set to 20 mins ie -S240<br><br>To check that status of the drive use the C option.<br><br>[root@mythtv ~]# /sbin/hdparm -C /dev/sdd<br><br>/dev/sdd:<br> drive state is: active/idle<br>
<br>AFAIK Ubuntu wont do this by default unless you have your computer running in "Laptop" mode.<br><br>Mitchell<br></div>