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| 211181 | 2004-01-30 02:30:00 | How do I check if my hdd is powering down when I set it to in the bios setup. Does the os (Slackware9.1) have anything to do with it??? Cheers |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 211182 | 2004-01-30 02:35:00 | you can oftne hear if the drive has stoped spinning. as for other ways to check i am at a loss right now.... |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 211183 | 2004-01-30 07:12:00 | As I understand it, for power manangement to work you need two things: 1. compliant BIOS 2. compliant OS This is not an area that I have investigated much with Linux but I know power management is not turned on by default in Redhat 9. |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 211184 | 2004-01-30 07:55:00 | Linux mostly ignores the BIOS so setting it in the BIOS probably won't do anything. The /sbin/hdparm can be used to set the spindown time. Have a look at "man hdparm", its the -S option. But it can be a bit of mission to get it actually spinning down because there is almost always something running, eg syslog. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 211185 | 2004-01-31 02:12:00 | Yes I suspect it has not been powering down. Thanks for the ideas people, will look into it further. |
rmcb (164) | ||
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