[ltp] Making hard drive stop when not in use

[Jay Strauss]

Volker Gropp wrote:

>* On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:35:44 -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm running Debian/Sarge upon an A30 (2652 3CU).  I notice that the hard 
>>drive never stops spinning.  Even when I leave it idle all night long.
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>>Is there something, some package configuration, to make the machine 
>>conserve energy (and not wear out my hard drive) when the laptop is not 
>>being actively used for some specified period of time?
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>hi,
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>try linux laptop mode, you can find a Doc in 
>/usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt
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>Volker Gropp
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Thanks I just installed laptop-mode

Jay