On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:17 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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 think it would make sense if the in-kernel disk driver did this.
Optionally pm-powersave from pm-utils can do tricks until this happens.
David