Hi All!
I don't know if this is the right place to discuss my problem, if it isn't so, just let me know

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I have a very noisy HDD with a lot of stuff on it, but I don't want to access it frequently, so it would be great if i could somehow turn it off when i don't need anything from it, and then turn on back when i need to access it. Sure i can pull the power plug off when i don't need the HDD, but i would prefer some more gentle way to shut it up :-) The HDD is a simple 40Gb IDE HDD @722rpm on /dev/hdb. Can I stop it when my sytem is running?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.