[ltp] laptop mode

Mcskasi Csaba linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:53:37 +0100


On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:30:28 +0100, Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu>  
wrote:

> What happens if you do
> hdparm -y /dev/hda
> as root? Does HDD spin down then?
> Jiang

Yes, it spins down with hdparm but because of the activity of the  
filesystem it can't spin down compleatly. With the laptop-mode it does not  
spin down at all.

Csaba

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