Hello List, On 22/04/11 16:25, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:33 -0700, geertsky wrote:I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly. I'm booting from a usb stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like to preserver as much as possible. I tried hdparm -Y /dev/sda but hdparm -C /dev/sda reports it's only in standby... And actually I can hear it spinning... It must be possible to power it down completly no? Any ideas?How about unmounting the device?
powertop may give some hints. hth Jerome
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