Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2005-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Trying to save power consumption. I have a backup drive that is used 
> only once a day to back up the main drive. So - why should I run it more 
> that 10 minutes a day? What I'd like to do is keep it in an off state 
> and then at night power it on, mount it up, do the backup, unmount it, 
> and shut it down. Can I do that?


SATA not yet, USB you could however.

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