Making HDParm Parameters Permanent

[Amichai Rotman]

Thanks!

On 1/8/07, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
>
> "Amichai Rotman" <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to run an hdparm command on my DVD Writer drive at each boot - to
> > make the permanent:
> >
> > hdparm -c1 -d1 -a8 -u1 /dev/hdc
> > I saw somewhere I need to add this line to the /etc/rc.local file. The
> HOWTO
> > I saw wasn't specific to Ubuntu and I wanted to make sure I am doing
> this
> > right, not to break the system...
>
>
> Have you looked at /etc/hdparm.conf ? It's there just for that ;-)
> Scroll down to the bottom of the file, it gives you an option to
> specify a string of command line options.
> The file is well documented, have a look ;-)
>
> Personally I use it to spin down one of my hard drives at boot, as I
> rarely need to access the data on it, and it's very noisy... also saves
> power :-)
>
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