Re: Spinning down external USB HDD
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[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 down using it. Is there any way
> using sdparm or an other utility to spin down the hard disk?
Try using hdparm then, it should work... Well, I'm not entirely sure
about power-management in USB storage devices, any feedback is welcome.
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