Am 11.11.19 um 14:28 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 17:12, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> >> I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC. >> >> I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard >> Partitions on XFS. >> >> The drive is spinning, nonstop. > > I would check the NANO to see if its firmware has any settings or > updates which cover this. Then check if the drive has firmware updates > needed. Motherboard and drive firmware fixes have been the things I > have found to fix most of the problems for drive 'not powering down' > problems. I think the last one I remember on IRC was a drive set came > up in a mode saying 'I am in fast access mode' or something and so the > motherboard kept it spinning up all the time to make sure it could > write quickly. > > Maybe $ hdparm -S helps? Take a look into $ man hdparm -- Leon