[ale] Wireless and HDD Questions

Tue May 27 11:20:29 EDT 2003

On Friday 23 May 2003 04:47 pm, AMIT AGRAWAL wrote:

> Moreover I have a couple of quick questions :
>
> Q1. How to spin down the HDD on a Linux machine from the
> console mode ?

hdparm will do it.

Beware that hard drives have a tendency under linux to spin back up again.  
I've never seen a good solution to keeping them spun down.  One trick is 
to use the "noatime" option on mount, but I don't know that that alone 
will be enough.

Michael
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