laptop hdd standby time

[Thom May]

* Nick Kamenyitzky (nick at nerdforce.net) wrote :
> Hi there,
> I've noticed that when my laptop is running on battery power that the 
> hard drive spins down very soon after idle (something like 5 secs).
> 
> Is this supposed to be happening?
Yes.
> Is there a way to adjust the delay?
> 
look in /etc/acpi/power.sh - the hdparm -S call is the one that changes the
spindown time - the default is 12, which is 60 seconds before spindown.
Cheers,
-Thom
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