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Topic: how can I stop my HDs?, I need a command to stop my spinning HD

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vees

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Posted: June 08 2006,03:10

Hi,

I am running DSL 2.4 on a Quantex laptop and everything runs great. I always use the 'TORAM' cheat code when booting up the DSL live-CD to free up the CD drive and to spend less energy. All works well, but my hard drive keeps spinning even though it is neither mounted nor used (I have enough memory - 192MB - not to need any swap).

Is there a command (or myDSL extension) I could use to stop my HD from spinning and park the HD heads rather than wait for a long time before the laptop does it on its own?

Many thanks,

VS

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skaos

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Posted: June 08 2006,10:19

If DSL comes with the command line utility hdparm, you can use that. According to the man page 'hdparm -Y /dev/hda' (without quotes, assuming /dev/hda is your disk) should shut it down completely. I suggest that you read the man page before you do anything.