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oops, pressed submit by accident.<br />
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hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda<br />
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will shut down hda after 20 minutes.<br />
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do a man hdparm to see the parameters.<br />
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(only works on IDE tho, for scsi you need something like scsispindown)
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oops, pressed submit by accident.

hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda

will shut down hda after 20 minutes.

do a man hdparm to see the parameters.

(only works on IDE tho, for scsi you need something like scsispindown)

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&quot;20 minutes of inactivity&quot; that is.
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I'm running DPMS under mandrake 6.1 and everything works fine, but is there any way of gettting the hard drive to power down after a set time, other than through the bios which doesn't work.<br />
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Many thanks
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I'm running DPMS under mandrake 6.1 and everything works fine, but is there any way of gettting the hard drive to power down after a set time, other than through the bios which doesn't work.

Many thanks

hard disk power down?

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