On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 11:10 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2021-06-13 at 14:38 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I actually use a udev rule for idle spin down: > > > > $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/69-hdparm.rules > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", \ > > KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]", \ > > ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}=="WDZ47F0A", \ > > RUN+="/usr/sbin/hdparm -B 100 -S 252 /dev/disk/by-id/wwn- > > 0x5000c500a93cae8a" > > $ > > BTW, the reason I don't do this is that one of the drives doesn't > accept the APM spin-down command: > > $ sudo hdparm -B 100 -S 24 /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee058f952e1 > > /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee058f952e1: > setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x64 (100) > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error > setting standby to 24 (2 minutes) > APM_level = not supported Turns out that the problem isn't with the -S but with the -B. I can just set the standby time directly on this drive, so I'm going to try your udev idea instead of my elaborate dock-watch workaround. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure