Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:14:57 -0800 | From | Marc Perkel <> | Subject | Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives? |
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>On Saturday 19 November 2005 19:01, Alan Cox wrote: > > >>On Sad, 2005-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >> >>>Trying to save power consumption. I have a backup drive that is used >>>only once a day to back up the main drive. So - why should I run it more >>>that 10 minutes a day? What I'd like to do is keep it in an off state >>>and then at night power it on, mount it up, do the backup, unmount it, >>>and shut it down. Can I do that? >>> >>> >>SATA not yet, USB you could however. >> >> > >Or PATA, of course. I switch off two of my HDs 4 minutes after last use with >the commands: > >hdparm -S 48 /dev/hde >hdparm -S 48 /dev/hdg > >Isn't there a passthru patch in the works to let commands, such as the one >required for suspend, through to a SATA device? > > >
So - why isn't there more SATA support. Seems like this and SMART aren't supported. What's up with that? Why is SATA harder than IDE?
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