How can I spin down the hard drive?

don don at drussell.dnsalias.com
Wed Jan 21 02:13:47 UTC 2004


Samuel AU said:
> Hi all,
>
> I issued the following command in crontab. However, the light of my hard
> drive on every 1 to 2 seconds. It seems doesn't work. So, how can I spin
> down the hard drive every 3 minutes?

man hdparm

hdparm -S36 ...

3 minutes = 180 seconds = 36, 5 second intervals





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