Finally in 10.2 (Jaguar), the hard disk spindown mechanism works correctly. However, the problem is that, for some reason Apple decided to remove the timout bar to set how long the hard drive should be idle before it spins down. The default timeout is 10 minutes, which is too soon, in my opinion.
Fortunately, you can still control this timeout via the command line, using pmset. With this utility, you can control all the items that you would normally be able to control through the "Energy Saver" panel.
The one that interests us is the "spindown" argument to pmset. For example, if I would like to change the HD spindown timeout to 30 minutes, I would type:
Fortunately, you can still control this timeout via the command line, using pmset. With this utility, you can control all the items that you would normally be able to control through the "Energy Saver" panel.
The one that interests us is the "spindown" argument to pmset. For example, if I would like to change the HD spindown timeout to 30 minutes, I would type:
% pmset -a spindown 30See the manual page for pmset for more information by typing man 1 pmset.
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