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Cc: Gaspar Chilingarov <nm@web.am>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ataidle and -current ?
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On Fri, 26 May 2006, Julian Elischer wrote:
> the interface to control the deveices has changed. Theoretically you 
> could make a much simpler ataidle program now but no-one has done it..

I wrote ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/atautil.tar to manipulate ATA 
"APM" settings.  APM is drive managed power configuration.

I call a simple shell script via apmd to enabling idling when the laptop 
is on battery.

'atautil' also supports reading the drive tempreature from IBM/Hitachi 
Travelstars.