HD power can't powerdown itself [INACTIVE]

[IvanHuang]

i am new ,i want to know why HD power can't powerdown itself please.

[Claudio]

If you do not create the second partition the hd will power down 1 minute after the boot.
If you create the second partion the system believes you will install squid or other add-on which uses the hd all the time. Then the auto-powerdown resource is disable automatically.

[Toast_r]

I upgraded my BFW from 2.30 to 2.31.1
Now th HD doesn't spin down anymore,
like it did before the upgrade.
There is only one partition.

[bobbb]

It works for me (PPPoe) but I don't remember if I did an upgrade or a fresh install but anyway the place to check is in /etc/rc.d/pkgs/ if there is a rc.hdparm and if there is a /sbin/hdparm

OR best try the commands by hand

/sbin/hdparm -u 1 /dev/hda
/sbin/hdparm -S 12 /dev/hda

[ntbill]

Maybe it is the same problem that I found in the file /etc/rc.d/pkgs/mod.hdparm where it looks for a file /tmp/partition.info but that file doesn't exist. It should look instead for the file /tmp/boot.info.

I already post a bug report about this to Claudio at http://www.brazilfw.com.br/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=64489#p139315

Claudio told me that the partition.info file is present only when a second partition has benn created, but that hdparm should start even if the file is absent. He will verify all that later and come back with a statement like "great job ntbill" or "ntbill, you don't understand how it works"

If hdparm is not started from mod.hdparm, then I don't know where it is started from.