From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 01:33:43 2005 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 A8FE216A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A62F43D48 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:33:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED8121C8E4 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:33:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51514-19 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:33:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f01:224:1::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCCF21C8A9 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:33:41 -0600 (CST) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:33:18 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501101541.01854.kirk@strauser.com> <443bx8khsp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <443bx8khsp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1523246.AcjOhIQizS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501101933.40656.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: hdparm for FreeBSD? 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: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:33:43 -0000 --nextPart1523246.AcjOhIQizS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 10 January 2005 05:04 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > You mean like atacontrol(8)? > Or maybe you mean something more like tunefs(8)? Nope. atacontrol returns information about a drive's capabilities, but off= ers=20 no way to change the settings that affect them. Example: # atacontrol cap 2 0 [...] write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued no no 0/0x00 SMART yes yes microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management no no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management yes no 254/0xFE 128/0x80 shows that read ahead is available and enabled, but I don't have a way to t= urn=20 it off. tunefs only affects a filesystem's attributes but not the underlyi= ng=20 hardware. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1523246.AcjOhIQizS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB4yz05sRg+Y0CpvERAtX0AKCHJ3q6bNuHU+yrg3R9/SQx2tOVZACfSOqg LgXDueq1Nbqi6wpxX2q52BA= =oLDZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1523246.AcjOhIQizS--