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Source: hd-idle
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Section: utils
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Priority: extra
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Maintainer: Christian Mueller <cm1@mumac.de>
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Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), libc6-dev
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Standards-Version: 3.8.4
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Homepage: http://hd-idle.sf.net
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#Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/hd-idle.git
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#Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/hd-idle.git;a=summary
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Package: hd-idle
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Architecture: any
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Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
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Description: Spin down idle [USB] hard disks
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hd-idle is a utility program for spinning-down external disks after a period
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of idle time. Since most external IDE disk enclosures don't support setting
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the IDE idle timer, a program like hd-idle is required to spin down idle disks
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automatically.
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A word of caution: hard disks don't like spinning up too often. Laptop disks
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are more robust in this respect than desktop disks but if you set your disks
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to spin down after a few seconds you may damage the disk over time due to the
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stress the spin-up causes on the spindle motor and bearings. It seems that
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manufacturers recommend a minimum idle time of 3-5 minutes, the default in
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hd-idle is 10 minutes.
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One more word of caution: hd-idle will spin down any disk accessible via the
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SCSI layer (USB, IEEE1394, ...) but it will not work with real SCSI disks
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because they don't spin up automatically. Thus it's not called scsi-idle and
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I don't recommend using it on a real SCSI system unless you have a kernel
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patch that automatically starts the SCSI disks after receiving a sense buffer
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indicating the disk has been stopped. Without such a patch, real SCSI disks
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won't start again and you can as well pull the plug.
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