idle HD spin down standby/sleep, laptop mode?? (seagate 7200.7)

[Sy Beamont]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 20:48, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > I'm trying to get fedora to spin down my primary drive when idle,
> > but I can't seem to get it to go into standby mode. When I use
> > hdparm to put it into 'sleep' mode, it does sleep very briefly,
> > waking up after a few seconds. When I use standby mode (either
>
> The system constantly flushes dirty cache buffers to the disk so it
> never has a chance to spin down.  A google search for "noflushd"
> should reveal a daemon that covers this issue that you can install.

Also setting this up recently I found this message very helpful:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-21/0022.html

a non-encoded version of the laptop.sh script is at
http://lwn.net/Articles/32520/

add your hdparm commands to /etc/rc.local and that should do it.

enjoy