
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:38:39 Albrecht Mehl wrote:
I would like to use my opensuse 10.2 system on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB HDS722516VLSA80 hard disk mostly without the hd running, i.e. I imagine copying the files needed for my daily work at the beginning of a session to a ram disk and then working from there. At the end of such a script the hd will be turned off. But ... I do not know how to accomplish this turning off. So for hints as detailled as possible as to how to turn off the hd in a script I would be very grateful.
I'm not sure if it works for SATA drives, but there is a tool for IDE drives called hdparm, and
hdparm -Y /dev/<device>
will put the disk in sleep mode. The man page says it should work with SATA as well, but I have never tried it. I did try it once with an IDE drive, and then it worked well
Good answer. That's a much better solution than trying to permanently turn off the hard drive. The sleep state induced by hdparm still allows the disk drive to be used as needed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org