Re: [SLE] How spin down hdb when ACPI is unsupported?

* Mitch Thompson [05-22-03 05:51]:

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On Wednesday 21 May 2003 17:06, Lars Norén wrote:

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I guess the simplest way of accomplishing what I want is to do 'hdparm -S 90 /dev/hdb' but it would be nice not having to do it manually at every boot. Is it possible to specify a kind of cron job that takes

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of it? Or can I edit some hard drive parameters somewhere and add 'hdparm -S 90 /dev/hdb' to them?

If you're still unable to get the other solutions to work, you could put

Ahh, thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Shanahan" To: "SuSE Linux" Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 6:02 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] How spin down hdb when ACPI is unsupported? the

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hdparm command and options into an /etc/init.d script that normally gets run at bootup. RH has/had a file called rc.local that was run after everything else had occurred. I had thought SuSE had the same, but can't find it.

RH's /etc/init.d/rc.local equates in SuSE to /etc/init.d/boot.local -- Patrick Shanahan Please avoid TOFU and trim >quotes< http://wahoo.no-ip.org Registered Linux User #207535 icq#173753138 @ http://counter.li.org Linux, a continuous *learning* experience

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