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Frankenpad wont stop spinning UltraBay HDD
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:36 pm
by tipo33
I have a Frankenpad, 15" T60 wit T61 mobo, Intel graphics etc... Linux Mint 14. Whenever I insert a hard drive with a UltraBay adapter, It constantly spins the drive. I can hear it and feel the vibration. It does not do this with two different ultrabay DVD drives I own, it acts like a normal drive. I only have one Ultrabay HDD adapter, and I have tried it with two different drives, and I get the same behaviour. I have checked all the power saving settings and all, and got nothing. I can still acess the drive, and do everything I need to. It just bugs me, and I don't think it's good for the drives. Thank you in advance.
Re: Frankenpad wont stop spinning UltraBay HDD
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 1:41 pm
by rumbero
tipo33 wrote:I have a Frankenpad, 15" T60 wit T61 mobo, Intel graphics etc... Linux Mint 14. Whenever I insert a hard drive with a UltraBay adapter, It constantly spins the drive.
Check out the -B option of the hdparm command. Here is the relevant entry of the man page (in Debian):
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-B Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports
it. A low value means aggressive power management and a high
value means better performance. Possible settings range from
values 1 through 127 (which permit spin-down), and values 128
through 254 (which do not permit spin-down). (cut off here)
Parameters for specific drives can be configured via the /etc/hdparm.conf configuration file.
Re: Frankenpad wont stop spinning UltraBay HDD
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:08 pm
by tipo33
Fixed, thank you.