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manypopes

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Registered: 2013-06-25

Posts: 33

Avoid spinning up unused HDD at boot?

I have two hard drives connected to my PC that vibrate in and out of phase with each other creating an annoying pulsing buzzing sound. One of the drives isn't used at all by Linux and if I spin it down with "hdparm -Y /dev/sdc" the buzzing stops.

Is there any way that I can stop this drive from ever spinning up when Linux boots? That way I won't be putting any extra load on it by constantly spinning it down.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Avoid spinning up unused HDD at boot?

It's probably spun-up by your BIOS before Arch even gets a look in.

If it's not in your fstab at all then you could write a systemd service to run your hdparm command when Arch boots.

Last edited by Slithery (2014-07-29 22:02:30)

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