Package: hd-idle Version: 1.05+0~20230701114833.17+stretch~1.gbp034389 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Christian Mueller Installed-Size: 43 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7) Homepage: http://hd-idle.sf.net Priority: extra Section: utils Filename: pool/main/h/hd-idle/hd-idle_1.05+0~20230701114833.17+stretch~1.gbp034389_i386.deb Size: 14086 SHA256: 2d088783f60b5e30d98fbfb21d6f577d6e8aa22a86a0884ce10de021021fbab0 SHA1: 70c8a4c75143a1623d48aaa3aa44822929c3da70 MD5sum: 861a0c3c5c911e5d430f5a09933e2e12 Description: Spin down idle [USB] hard disks hd-idle is a utility program for spinning-down external disks after a period of idle time. Since most external IDE disk enclosures don't support setting the IDE idle timer, a program like hd-idle is required to spin down idle disks automatically. . A word of caution: hard disks don't like spinning up too often. Laptop disks are more robust in this respect than desktop disks but if you set your disks to spin down after a few seconds you may damage the disk over time due to the stress the spin-up causes on the spindle motor and bearings. It seems that manufacturers recommend a minimum idle time of 3-5 minutes, the default in hd-idle is 10 minutes. . One more word of caution: hd-idle will spin down any disk accessible via the SCSI layer (USB, IEEE1394, ...) but it will not work with real SCSI disks because they don't spin up automatically. Thus it's not called scsi-idle and I don't recommend using it on a real SCSI system unless you have a kernel patch that automatically starts the SCSI disks after receiving a sense buffer indicating the disk has been stopped. Without such a patch, real SCSI disks won't start again and you can as well pull the plug. Package: hd-idle-dbgsym Source: hd-idle Version: 1.05+0~20230701114833.17+stretch~1.gbp034389 Auto-Built-Package: debug-symbols Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Christian Mueller Installed-Size: 16 Depends: hd-idle (= 1.05+0~20230701114833.17+stretch~1.gbp034389) Homepage: http://hd-idle.sf.net Priority: extra Section: debug Filename: pool/main/h/hd-idle/hd-idle-dbgsym_1.05+0~20230701114833.17+stretch~1.gbp034389_i386.deb Size: 2758 SHA256: b8190270919fe92a0a320a66b65c4c9fb6271e36c903c1039f8f17e7e710afc2 SHA1: 8103673b1cf93a4ddb57011bbad7e99244b04c5c MD5sum: 3369ed2dc34cb4261256299304cb1dc8 Description: Debug symbols for hd-idle Build-Ids: 87b96891faa33a53b709944aaff7becf573130c5