From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 26 19:16:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C8E16A94B for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 19:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [70.88.158.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C12443D55 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 19:16:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [70.88.158.93]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4QJGMaV076789; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:16:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 15:16:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-X-Sender: winter@sasami.jurai.net To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <44774C72.2020809@elischer.org> Message-ID: <20060526151012.U79841@sasami.jurai.net> References: <4476F897.10202@web.am> <44774C72.2020809@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (sasami.jurai.net [70.88.158.93]); Fri, 26 May 2006 15:16:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Gaspar Chilingarov , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ataidle and -current ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:16:43 -0000 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.