Scott Silva wrote: > on 3/26/2012 1:49 PM m.roth at 5-cent.us spake the > following: <snip> >> Next trick: hdparm. I want to disable, or at least shove way up, the >> spindown timeout on these drives, which, depending on the thread you >> read, is 6 or 8 seconds. hdparm should let me do that... but before I do, I'd >> like to know what it's set at. Does anyone know how to find that out? >> And no, the manpage is wrong, hdparm -B<no parm) /dev/sdx does *not* read >> it, it just complains it's missing the parm. > Isn't it sdparm for scsi and scsi emulations? That may be around, but they've updated hdparm to deal with SATA as well. mark