From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 17:56:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6035D16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from thunder.trej.net (as3-3-6.orby.s.bonet.se [217.215.33.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD6C43D55 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@dagerot.nu) Received: from mailgw.trej.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])hBV1uf432680 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:56:41 +0100 Message-Id: <200312310156.hBV1uf432680@thunder.trej.net> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:56:41 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Joachim Dagerot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: IMHO/0.98.3t (Webmail for Roxen) 3j-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information 3j-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Sleepmode for ATAdisks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:56:50 -0000 I have been told that freeBSD can't handle powermanagement for IDE disks, instead that should be tuned in BIOS. However I also found this post with some kind of patch: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-September/0104 10.html Though I'm in the computer business since late 80's my knowledge and interests in patches etc are none, can someone please tell me if this patch will help my freeBSD to power down non used IDE disks? regards, joachim