slack: apm to shut down hard disks

mrchaos · 06-07-2005, 10:44 PM

anyone know how to use APM to shut down the hard disks when system has been idle for long periods of time?

ledow · 06-08-2005, 08:38 AM

It's not APM that you need, you need to look at the command hdparm. Try typing:

man hdparm

Probably something like:

hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda

will give you a 20-minute powerdown of the hard drives.

mrchaos · 06-08-2005, 08:40 PM

hey, thanks! I didn't know you could do stuff like that with just hdparm!