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 an other utility to spin down the hard disk? Thanks, /KS PS: The system is an Unstable with kernel 2.6.12