Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:35:35 -0800 From: Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout? Message-ID: <421EB927.90406@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <20050224181437.L11973@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <421D75ED.3020405@telus.net> <20050224181437.L11973@maren.thelosingend.net>
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--=======AVGMAIL-421EB9272F42======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Svein: Thank you for this suggestion. I will follow-up. Graham/ Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >* Graham North [2005-02-23 22:36 -0800] > > >> Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode >> without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? >> >> > >Take a look at ataidle in the ports collection. > >Note that the disk will come back to life again when you access it, and >that several processes do exactly this all the time. In order for ataidle >to be very useful, you'd have to twaek the system's crontabs et.al. > > > > --=======AVGMAIL-421EB9272F42======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 --=======AVGMAIL-421EB9272F42=======--
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