Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Powersaving with hdparm

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

Great job, I'll see about getting a binary up on in the beta area for
download.  I'd be very interested to hear what sort of results you see from that.

So whats next? ;)

cheers,
bern.

"Jonathan C. Ross" <jon...@ba...> said:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have just 'ported' hdparm to my iPod, and added the following line to
> my /etc/rc:
> 
>    hdparm -S 1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> 
> now my harddisk spins down after 5 seconds of inactivity, and spins up
> again quite happily when needed.  I will do some tests over the next
> couple of days to see how long the battery lasts in various
> circumstances - perhaps 10 seconds spindown will prove better.
> 
> The patch is quite simple, just affecting the Makefile: 
> 
> $ diff hdparm-5.5/Makefile.orig hdparm-5.5/Makefile
> 13c13
> < CC = gcc
> ---
> > CC = arm-elf-gcc
> 17c17
> < LDFLAGS = -s
> ---
> > LDFLAGS = -s -elf2flt
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Jonathan.
> 
> 
> 
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