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[ubuntu] Stop SMART polling on sleeping drives

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi Guys, I have my hard disks set to spin down when idle which seems to be working fine except that they all spin up randomly sometimes. The drives are all ones i just use for additional storage so nothing is running off them so I'm thinking it is the SMART check that is making it spin up. Ive read some articles saying to add the '-n' flag in /etc/smartd.conf so that it doesn't poll the drive when it is spun down but I dont have that file. I only have a pretty basic knowledge of Linux and it is just a standard install of 9.10. I'm not sure I'm that comfortable w (Hardware)

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I want to spin down some hard-disks when they are idle. So I used hdparm package. In the /etc/hdparm.conf I added following lines:

command_line { hdparm -Ss 241 /dev/sda }

My intention was to spin down hard disk after 30 minutes of idle time. However, my problem is, how I know for sure whether hard disk has spun down (assuming that it had exceed idle time of 30 minutes)??

Any ideas? Tips??

Hello all. Hopefully someone can give me a hand with what seems to be simple issue.

Hi all,

I'm working on a project to spin-down all of my hard drives (except the boot disk) when they aren't accessed. I'm running a fresh install of 9.10 and I have the following set of drives:

/dev/sda1 -- boot /dev/sdb1 -- HDS 500GB member of md0 raid 0 /dev/sdc1 -- SEA 500GB member of md0 raid 0

Ok im no linux newb im acually migrating to the EE spin from debian/gentoo.. I just want to know if i can somehow use the lxde spin and add all the packages in the EE spin. #1 I hate gnome i dont want it even installed. #2 this is my work pc for engineering and its a bit slim on specs p4 with 1gb ram. I usually use kde, but for this set up i want something light like lxde.

Hi I'm running Jaunty Server on an old Sony VAIO laptop. I'm trying to get the laptop hard drive to spin down when inactive to save a bit of power but mostly because it's quite noisy with it on.

Hi there,

I have just installed Karmic and first of all I would like to say kudos, I've been using Ubuntu since Hoary and never before has it felt so polished.

Setting SATA HDD spindown time 33 weeks 8 hours ago

I am able to spindown my SATA HDDs by using

sudo hdparm -y /dev/sdc

The state shown by

sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdc

changes from active/idle to standby (and I can hear the HDD spin down).

However, using

sudo hdparm -S5 /dev/sdc

doesn't spin down the drive after 5*5 = 25secs.

Some additional information:

AHCI is enabled. I am using Western Digital Green drives. APM_level = not supported Fil

I'm currently configuring a new home server, and I am trying to get the disks to spin down after one hour. But they do not spin down.

Setup

I have my entire system on an ssd: /dev/sda. I have three hdds in the system: /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd.

Every time update-grub is run all hard drives are scanned. Each drives that is in standby state will spin up to go idle. This is a waste of energy. We use update-grub version 1.98:

# update-grub -v grub-mkconfig (GRUB) 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1

Regression

There is a GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true option in the /etc/default/grub file. But that seems to only work from version 2 and up.