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From: Matthew Frederico <matt@ultrize.com>
To: Joshua Rogers <joshuarogers@hopper.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Noflushd usage
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:23:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080832995.4645.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net>

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:53, Joshua Rogers wrote:
> Slightly curious here.  I have fairly new computer here that I got from 
> walmart.com maybe 4 months ago.  I decided to install linux and windows 
> on  it.  Ok.  I installed a 100Gb harddrive into the computer that has 
> all my data on it.  And the drive sounds like a jet plane.
> 
> How can I (or can I not) make noflushd turn off the second hard drive 
> after about 15 minutes?

I believe "hdparm" is the command you are looking for.

something like:

"hdparm -s 30 /dev/hdb"

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01  4:53 Noflushd usage Joshua Rogers
2004-04-01 15:23 ` Matthew Frederico [this message]
2004-04-01 16:03   ` chuck gelm
2004-04-01 19:30 ` pa3gcu

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