HDD power down (Re: [plug] cdrom not ejecting)

[Timothy White]

On 7/1/06, Michael Holland <myk at myk.id.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Matt Kemner wrote:
>
> > You can do this with hdparm(8):
>
> Thanks Matt. Works perfectly.

Just a note... Never, I repeat, NEVER do this to a mounted partition,
that contains your kernel, or system binaries... It just might not
recover properly ;-)
Of course, an unmounted drive is fine!

Tim
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