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Hi scottg,<br />
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You may be looking for the hdparm command.<br />
hdparm -y /dev/hdX (where X is your drive) should put your drive in standby mode, usually causing it to spindown.<br />
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Cheers!
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Hi scottg,

You may be looking for the hdparm command.
hdparm -y /dev/hdX (where X is your drive) should put your drive in standby mode, usually causing it to spindown.

Cheers!

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hdparm will not work on SATA or SCSI disk with /dev/sdX.<br />
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Check your BIOS setting on the motherboard first to turn power management on the disks.
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hdparm will not work on SATA or SCSI disk with /dev/sdX.

Check your BIOS setting on the motherboard first to turn power management on the disks.

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Can kernel 2.6 or some utility tell a SATA drive to spin down when its not needed? &nbsp;I know it must spin up when I reboot, but I don't need it afterwards. &nbsp;The server would be a new dell poweredge if that matters. 
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Can kernel 2.6 or some utility tell a SATA drive to spin down when its not needed?  I know it must spin up when I reboot, but I don't need it afterwards.  The server would be a new dell poweredge if that matters. 

Spin down SATA drives?

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