Harddrive spin down

[tet]

I doesn't sound as if my harddrives spins down is there something wrong ?

[johannes]

Do you mean spin-down during idle operation, or spin-down after power-down?

Bubba doesn't spin down it's disk during idle operation. Many of the server features accesses the disk regularly, wich would cause the disk to spin-up very often if spin-down was implemented. This would shorten the disk's lifetime substantially.

If you mean that the disk doesn't spin-down after power down, let us know. It should.

[donnie]

I have turned off allot of the bubba features and is just using it as fileserver, SSH login and Squid proxy at work.

I really really wanto spindown the disks when idle.
I've tried with hdparm -S but it does not spindown, something else that one has to do?

[tor]

Hi,

If you want to experiment with disk spin down you should read up on laptop mode. Or try out the laptop_mode packages available from here: http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/ and more specific http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/debian

/Tor