How to "park" my HD ?

Hi,

I wonder... there was some command to tell the hard drives to "park" after some defined time, but I forgot how it is done. Can anyone help me with this ??

Thanks in advance

Luca

@Ricossa

IIRC there exist tools on Aminet. You can also use IDETool
to spin down drive (immediately, not after inactivity).
However its IMHO not recommended to force a drive to
spin down, it will decrease its lifetime. Just use a
typical 2.5" IDE drive which was eplicitly designed and
manufactured for notebooks, most of them do spin down
automatically after a given period of inactivity.

@TetiSoft

thanks... hmmm if I understand you, it is safe to let the A1 on all the time without to spin down the HD ? Doesn't THIS shorten its lifetime ?

Luca

Hi @Ricossa

Have you queried "idetool" ?

Remember St?phane Guillard?

http://intuitionbase.com/static.php?section=notes

I'm sure I read some of his sii0680 documents.

@Snuffy

thanks, I'll have a look again at it...

@Ricossa

Why park your drives? with modern drives it's better to leave them running, it's the heating/cooling and the spin up/down that stress the drive...

But if you want to kill your drives as quickly as possible... use the Commander2 screen blanker module and something like idetool -p devname unit 3 eg.

idetool -p a1ide.device 1 3 >nil:

@Severin

> with modern drives it's better to leave them running

thank you, that's what I wanted to know

L.