Sleep Daemon for Harddrives

sadarax · 03-12-2006, 12:13 AM

Does anyone know of a good application that can sleep/spin-down/turn-off harddrives after a certain length of inactivity, but then turn them back on when you need?

I have not had any luck finding anything for a desktop system. I found sleepd for laptops, but it does not seem to want to work with my hardware. The best thing would be some sort of KDE app, but really anything would suffice.

System Spec's:

Quote:

Motherboard: EPOX EP-9NPA+Ultra NF4 ULTRA RT

Video Card: Geforce 6800GT 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card
Type VGA XFX|
Model PVT45GUDF3

Sound: Built-in Sound on EPOX board - NVidia CK084

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2000MHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core
Processor Model ADA4200BVBOX

RAM: CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System
Memory Model CMX1024-3200C2PT
Model #:CMX1024-3200C2PT

Distro: Ubuntu/Kubuntu 5.10, KDE 3.4.3.
Kernel: 2.6.12-9-686-smp

Keyboard: Standard 104-PC key english
Mouse: USB Optical Microsoft Mouse (the really common kind)

Oliv' · 03-12-2006, 05:42 AM

Hello,

you ask a question about your hard drive, and you tell the whole specs of your machine except your hard drive

Well if you have an ATA/IDE hard drive, use hdparm to do that

Oliv'

sadarax · 03-12-2006, 05:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oliv'

Hello,

you ask a question about your hard drive, and you tell the whole specs of your machine except your hard drive

Well if you have an ATA/IDE hard drive, use hdparm to do that

Oliv'

Oh, that is true isn't it? Well, I have Western Digital 120 GB standard IDE, and one Western Digital 400 GB Sata2 drive.

I know about hdparam, but can it be used as a sleep daemon to turn off and on the drives as necessary? I thought it could only sleep them on or off, not perform monitoring ...

Oliv' · 03-12-2006, 05:56 AM

Well have a look at -B or -Y or also -S options