My HTPC has 5 hard drives. It doesn't make sense to have all 5 drives consume power, make noise, and wear out while only a single drive is typically used for hours at a time recording/playing a single TS file.
My Asus motherboard BIOS has a "HDD Power Down" option which causes a hard drive to be placed into a low power mode if the hard drive is inactive for a configurable period of time. I have set this option to "15 min" and the motherboard-attached hard drives do correctly enter low power mode after they remain inactive for 15 minutes.
My HTPC also has an SIIG UltraATA 133 PCI controller with 3 Seagate hard drives attached. None of the three hard drives which are attached to the UltraATA 133 PCI controller ever enter low power mode. The UltraATA 133 PCI product claims to include..."Full support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) for advanced system power management".
Does anyone know how to configure the UltraATA 133 PCI controller to place the hard drives in low power mode after they have been inactive for some period of time?
Thanks.
DonP
My Asus motherboard BIOS has a "HDD Power Down" option which causes a hard drive to be placed into a low power mode if the hard drive is inactive for a configurable period of time. I have set this option to "15 min" and the motherboard-attached hard drives do correctly enter low power mode after they remain inactive for 15 minutes.
My HTPC also has an SIIG UltraATA 133 PCI controller with 3 Seagate hard drives attached. None of the three hard drives which are attached to the UltraATA 133 PCI controller ever enter low power mode. The UltraATA 133 PCI product claims to include..."Full support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) for advanced system power management".
Does anyone know how to configure the UltraATA 133 PCI controller to place the hard drives in low power mode after they have been inactive for some period of time?
Thanks.
DonP