Hi, I am running Debian 1.2 currently. My ASUS motherboard supports APM. When I turn on the HDD power saving in the BIOS setup I don't see (or should I write 'hear' :-) that any of my 2 SCSI disks is turned off after a specific idle time. So, I guess the BIOS only supports IDE disks, right?
Is there any other way to tell my system that it should turn off the disks if they are idle for more than let's say an hour? Is there a command at all to shutdown a SCSI disk? Maybe something like echo "scsi turnoff-single-device 0 0 1 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi Or do you guys think it's better for the disks anyway if they are left on all the time? I heard that the most stressing times for HDDs are the spin-up and spin-down times. Any comments? Thanks in advance, Andy. ____________________________________________________________________ Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
