March 23, 20242 yr Hi, I connected 2 drives to my SATA connectors on my ASRock J5040. So 2 connectors are not in use. Because of limitations in Powertop @mgutt I want to enable the power management settings for the two connectors that are not in use: Quote SATA Controller Some mainboards or pcie cards provide SATA ports through an additional SATA controller. Sadly some of the most popular and usually well supported JMB xxx and ASM xxxx controllers have an incompatibility to "powertop --auto-tune" because it sets all SATA ports to "med_power_with_dipm". To bypass this problem, you should not use "powertop --auto-tune". Instead read the "Commands" paragraph to set the commands manually. Then you can remove the line with the "med_power_with_dipm" setting or you can set each hostX individually How do I know the hosts for the connected not connected drives? Thank you.
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