Thanks - much appreciated. It never amazes me the stuff that's there when you know where to look :-) On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 23:20, Anders Widman wrote: > > All depends. On the RAID5 I have running at work & home I have a > > hot-spare & I have a hdparm -y /dev/hdg in rc.local which puts it to > > sleep after boot-up as its useless having it spin if its not needed. > > NOTE: I have never been able to get hdparm -Y /dev/hdg working on any > > drive even those that are suppost to support it. Again any pointers or > > info would be appreciated. > > Use "hdparm -S 242 /dev/hda" > > This is taken from the man page: > > > > -S Set the standby (spindown) timeout for the drive. > This value is used by the drive to determine how > long to wait (with no disk activity) before turning > off the spindle motor to save power. Under such > circumstances, the drive may take as long as 30 > seconds to respond to a subsequent disk access, > though most drives are much quicker. The encoding > of the timeout value is somewhat peculiar. A value > of zero means "off". Values from 1 to 240 specify > multiples of 5 seconds, for timeouts from 5 seconds > to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to 251 specify from > 1 to 11 units of 30 minutes, for timeouts from 30 > minutes to 5.5 hours. A value of 252 signifies a > timeout of 21 minutes, 253 sets a vendor-defined > timeout, and 255 is interpreted as 21 minutes plus > 15 seconds. > > //Anders -- Adrian Head (Public Key available on request.) _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
