Re: Spinning down external USB HDD

2005-08-15 Thread [KS]
Yuri Gorshkov wrote: > [KS] wrote: > > >>>I have an external USB HDD which I use only for backups. Although the >>>disk spins down itself after about half an hour or more ( I checked for >>>half an hour last time and it was still spinning). I had installed >>>sdparm earlier but I couldn't spin it

Re: Spinning down external USB HDD

2005-08-14 Thread Yuri Gorshkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [KS] wrote: > I have an external USB HDD which I use only for backups. Although the > disk spins down itself after about half an hour or more ( I checked for > half an hour last time and it was still spinning). I had installed > sdparm earlier but I c

Spinning down external USB HDD

2005-08-14 Thread [KS]
Hi, I have an external USB HDD which I use only for backups. Although the disk spins down itself after about half an hour or more ( I checked for half an hour last time and it was still spinning). I had installed sdparm earlier but I couldn't spin it down using it. Is there any way using sdparm or