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hard disk spindown as non-root user
Name: henne_flpkp Date: August 17, 2003 at 21:18:21 Pacific OS: redhat linux 9 CPU/Ram: PII350Mhz/128Mb
Comment:
Hi,
How can you spin down a har drive as non-root user.
When I type hdparm -y /dev/hdb as root my primary slave spins down, but as non-root user, I get '/dev/hdb : permission denied'.
Where do have to change permissions? ( I allready turned on the read- and write right for /dev/hdb for the non-root user)
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