From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Rogers Subject: Noflushd usage Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:53:35 -0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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? My first drive is /dev/hda. It contains Windows 2000 on an NTFS partition, Windows 98 on Fat32, Lycoris (can't remember the fs) and Debian (on ReiserFS). I don't mind this drive, it's quiet and contains only the OSes. My other drive is /dev/hdb. It is the 100Gb Drive. It consists of 5 partitions, all of which are of type Fat32. My computer is only about 3 feet from my bed, so this drive would definately keep me up. Either that or have to keep shutdown every night. Also, when I shutdown, if there is something ready to write to the drive, will it save, or will the kernel just ignore it. I'm running linux kernel 2.6.4, with ACPI enabled. It's a custom kernel, so if I need to make some modifications, I will. I'm going to be trying this on my Debian Install. I know I can't make /dev/hda spin down (because of the ReiserFS), but I would like to be able to spin down /dev/hdb (containing only FAT32 partitions.) Oh, one last thing (sorry), I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but when I type 'acpi' at konsole it responds "No support for device type: battery". Is this important? I'm running a desktop, so I'm not using a battery to power the system. Thanks and sorry for the length of the post. Joshua Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs