Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?

Alan Cox
2005-11-19T18:29:58Z

On Sad, 2005-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Trying to save power consumption. I have a backup drive that is used
> only once a day to back up the main drive. So - why should I run it more
> that 10 minutes a day? What I'd like to do is keep it in an off state
> and then at night power it on, mount it up, do the backup, unmount it,
> and shut it down. Can I do that?

SATA not yet, USB you could however.