[SLE] Drive Sleep configuration + Deaf Enet card [SuSE 7.0] - Repost
(sorry for the repost but this is a very important issue here - any help greatly appreciated!) Hello All, I've got an older SuSE distro - 7.0. I've got a large disk on there (80 GB) that I'm using as a backup volume (it is a Western Digital WDD80, I believe). Problem is, is seems to like to go to sleep (spin down) after non-use. Not the best behavior for a server. Can I adjust drive sleep parameters through SuSE as I can on the Mac and PC side? Also, unrelated, I woke up this am and seems that my server has gone deaf - cannot ping it, it cannot ping its own ip address, though it can ping localhost. eth0 is set up in yast (it was working fine). Its possible that the net card has gone belly-up. Is there a diagnostic routine in SuSE that will help me make that determination? Best, Peter D Bethke
Check the power saving options in the BIOS and then in the Control Center under Power Control. I found that if I turned on energy saving on my desktop, it would cause most everything to quiesce when all I wanted was to set the monitor on standby. On 16 May 2002 at 15:35, Peter D Bethke wrote:
(sorry for the repost but this is a very important issue here - any help greatly appreciated!)
Hello All,
I've got an older SuSE distro - 7.0. I've got a large disk on there (80 GB) that I'm using as a backup volume (it is a Western Digital WDD80, I believe). Problem is, is seems to like to go to sleep (spin down) after non-use. Not the best behavior for a server. Can I adjust drive sleep parameters through SuSE as I can on the Mac and PC side?
Also, unrelated, I woke up this am and seems that my server has gone deaf - cannot ping it, it cannot ping its own ip address, though it can ping localhost. eth0 is set up in yast (it was working fine). Its possible that the net card has gone belly-up. Is there a diagnostic routine in SuSE that will help me make that determination?
Best,
Peter D Bethke
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
Check the power saving options in the BIOS and then in the Control Center under Power Control. I found that if I turned on energy saving on my desktop, it would cause most everything to quiesce when all I wanted was to set the monitor on standby.
On 16 May 2002 at 15:35, Peter D Bethke wrote:
(sorry for the repost but this is a very important issue here - any help greatly appreciated!)
Hello All,
I've got an older SuSE distro - 7.0. I've got a large disk on there (80 GB) that I'm using as a backup volume (it is a Western Digital WDD80, I believe). Problem is, is seems to like to go to sleep (spin down) after non-use. Not the best behavior for a server. Can I adjust drive sleep parameters through SuSE as I can on the Mac and PC side?
Also, unrelated, I woke up this am and seems that my server has gone deaf - cannot ping it, it cannot ping its own ip address, though it can ping localhost. eth0 is set up in yast (it was working fine). Its possible
the net card has gone belly-up. Is there a diagnostic routine in SuSE
Jerry,
I could not locate the BIOS settings, and I'm using the minimal install on
7.0 (no KDE, just command line). Is there a power settings area in the
command line version of YAST or YAST2 or some other location to access drive
sleep settings?
Peter
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From: "Jerry Feldman"
will help me make that determination?
Best,
Peter D Bethke
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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The support for sleep settings are normally in the BIOS. The KDE control panel simply accesses BIOS. Older systems did not have this feature. There might be some way.Most BIOSes today have a section on power control. But, if this just started happeining recently, you might be having power problems on that system. I suspect that since your NIC failed at the same time that they might be related. On 17 May 2002 at 11:01, Peter D Bethke wrote:
Jerry,
I could not locate the BIOS settings, and I'm using the minimal install on 7.0 (no KDE, just command line). Is there a power settings area in the command line version of YAST or YAST2 or some other location to access drive sleep settings?
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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