From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Noflushd usage Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:03:23 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <406C3D4B.9070502@gelm.net> References: <406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net> <1080832995.4645.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1080832995.4645.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Matthew Frederico Cc: Joshua Rogers , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Matthew Frederico wrote: >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" > I think that argument is uppercase, i.e.: hdparm -S 240 /dev/hdb ;-) Chuck p.s. man hdparm for details. - 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