Hdparm - Checking if a drive is spun down
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Is there anyway to find out if a hard drive has spun down? I've been using the following command to spin it down after idle time: However I'm not sure it's working correctly and was wondering how to check the current power state to see if has correctly powered down.
Error Output
hdparm -S 120 /dev/hdX
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Fix for: Hdparm - Checking if a drive is spun down
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You can find out the power status with the flag to : As explained by : -C Check the current IDE power mode status, which will always be one of unknown (drive does not support this command), active/idle (normal operation), standby (low power mode, dr…
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