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Re: Laptop HDD spin down when idle
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:46:46 -0500
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On 10/27/2017 02:17 PM, D Greig wrote:
> 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.
>

This should probably get you going: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hdparm#Persistent_configuration_using_udev_rule

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Pat Riehecky

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
www.fnal.gov
www.scientificlinux.org

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