Thread: How to turn drives off after a period of time?
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Old 30th April 2009
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Under atacontrol:
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To spin down a disk after 30 minutes run

atacontrol spindown ad6 1800
dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/dev/null count=1
That looks like what I want to do.
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