On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:11:00 +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > > I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes > > some backups, and then umounts it. > > > I'd save a lot of electrical power (and I think also disk health) if > > I was able to turn on and off electrical power from the usb > > port. > > You could use hdparm to put the drive to sleep. > I get something like this: cubotto ~ # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: issuing sleep command HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Invalid exchange > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time. > -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391
