Hard disk power management

[kitts]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 16:47 IST, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I suggested a patch on the mailing list[1] some time ago, but Danny
> pointed out that we wouldn't actually save much power anyway. Is there
> any way you could profile the power you would save using hdparm? If you
> have gnome-power-manager installed you can just watch the discharge rate
> in the profile graph.

I was just looking out for some tool that would help me profile the power 
consumption so i would know what's taking all that power. If gnome power 
manager does that ill check it out, but i use KDE.

> My gut feeling is that with a modern hard-drive, it seems to save lots
> of power by itself, without using hdparm. I would be interested to be
> proved wrong. :-)

I sure hope so! Battery life is the one thing I'm disappointed with on my 
laptop. :-)
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Cheers!
kitts