Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 10/29/19 12:59 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >>> >>> You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one >>> can install it from testing (it is not advisable i

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > > You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one > > can install it from testing (it is not advisable in general, but the > > divergence between bus

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one > can install it from testing (it is not advisable in general, but the > divergence between buster and testing is not that big right now) > wget it from > http://ftp.de.

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-01 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 9/29/19 1:30 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Since a fresh install of buster, an external USB3 hard disk cage from > Terramaster that I own is not automatically spinning down the disks in > it when they go unused for a time. > > I used a previous generation of the cage with Stretch previously,

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>     logger "Setting spindown on disk drive: $DISK_DEV" >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set SCT=4000 $DISK_DEV >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set STANDBY=1 $DISK_DEV I found sdparm inscrutable so far so I'm really curious how you came up with the above incantation (`sdparm -al /dev/sdb` do

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:41:37AM -0700, B wrote: > > > On 9/29/19 4:30 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Any thoughts on where I might look to find settings that can be tweaked > > to make it spin down when idle? > > > See sdparm and hdparm tools. hdparm is probably the wrong tool because it's > f

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-30 Thread B
On 9/29/19 4:30 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Any thoughts on where I might look to find settings that can be tweaked to make it spin down when idle? See sdparm and hdparm tools. hdparm is probably the wrong tool because it's for internal drives connected to IDE/ATA/SATA busses. The reason sdp