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- Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:53 am
- Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
- Topic: USB Hard Drive Spindown Issue
- Replies: 4
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Re: USB Hard Drive Spindown Issue
No, it does not reassign its device. My knowledge of linux is limited so I can't tell you how to fix this. I'm sure there are plenty of forum posts discussing this. To check if my devices indeed did a spindown, I just listened to them :) I'm wondering how your script works to check for 5 minutes of ...
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:35 pm
- Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
- Topic: USB Hard Drive Spindown Issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10837
Re: USB Hard Drive Spindown Issue
I use the following command to spindown my Samsung G2 Portable 640g
Of course, replace the /dev/sdb with you own device
if you don't have the sdparm package just install it by
Works great on my FitPC2i
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sudo sdparm --flexible --command=stop /dev/sdbif you don't have the sdparm package just install it by
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sudo apt-get install sdparm