Re: Spinning down external USB HDD
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 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.
>
No hdparm does not work for it. Issuing command to spin down after 3
minutes gives the following:
/dev/sda:
setting standby to 36 (3 minutes)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle1) failed: Invalid argument
I had also tried sdparm earlier which didn't help either!
/KS
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