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Re: Laptop HDD spin down when idle
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D Greig <[log in to unmask]>
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D Greig <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:17:57 +0100
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On 27/10/17 17:24, D Greig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for help on how to stop/disable the HDD spin down option
> 

I should add that the laptop has a fresh(yesterday) install of SL7.4.

"hdparm" was not present on the system, so I installed it from SL repo.

Now I am unsure as to the safest way to use it for the task.

In the past spindown is disabled by default.


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Best Regards,
D Greig

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