From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:21:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:20:54 -0500 Received: from mail.terraempresas.com.br ([200.177.96.20]:18439 "EHLO mail.terraempresas.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:20:36 -0500 Message-ID: <002d01c17e48$6df98a20$1300a8c0@marcelo> From: "Marcelo Borges Ribeiro" To: Subject: making an ide hd sleep Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:23:28 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Iīd like to know if it's possible to put an ide hd to sleep after (for example) 15 min. idle (i donīt know if an hd under linux stays idle that amount of time. ). I tried mount -o noatime and hdparm -S 150 /dev/hda, but it seems that when it sleeps it starts working after a few seconds (when it sleeps!). Is there a way to have this feature under linux? Thanks in advance, Marcelo Ribeiro