g-n-t Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 my hard drive is too loud :angry: how can i spin it down? in the BIOS i set it to spin down after 3 minutes, but it doesnt work. ive been trying to do hdparm -S2 hda but it tells me hda is not a directory. how do i define my harddrive with hdparm, or better yet, is there a GUI for this? im using KDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoeba Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 No Linux expert but maybe it's hd0 hd1, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-n-t Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 nevermind. figured it out. Doh!. for anyone interested, its hdparm -S2 /dev/hda that spins it down after 10 seconds. each number is 5 seconds. so S1 would be 5, S3 would be 15, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Not sure if you're actually planning to use 10 secs as the spin down time but I really wouldn't recommend it. It will wear down the drive having it spin up and down constantly. IMO 3 mins is still too short :) Edit: I'm sure you know what you're doing, didn't mean to sound patronising. :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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