[ltp] laptop mode

[Jiang Qian]

What if you start laptop-mode, wait for about 30 seconds and then run
hdparm -y /dev/hda
does it stay down for the time specified in laptop-mode, which by 
default is 600-30 about 9 minutes?
Qian Jiang

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:53:37AM +0100, Mcskasi Csaba wrote:
> 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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