On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:47 +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote: > * Norbert Goebel <egalus@xxxxxx> [17-10-05 15:35]: > > You can enable it with hdparm. > > ah ok, i think hdparm -S180 should be a nice value. Getting somewhat off topic here, but has anyone played with "hdparm -B"? I tested it briefly on a laptop a while back and it seemed to enable HDD spindown based on $something too, but I'd like to know more details (than what the manual page says) exactly what it does in practice and hear others' experiences before trying it on a "production" VDR box...
