From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 20:31:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB58116A401 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (smtp1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2AE13C4B7 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from nox.student.utwente.nl (nox.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.91]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l3BKVWLr025766; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:31:32 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: "Steve Franks" Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:31:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> <200704091751.27697.pieter@degoeje.nl> <539c60b90704111316w38017613sd50718d901d37831@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90704111316w38017613sd50718d901d37831@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704112231.31908.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:31:40 -0000 On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Steve Franks wrote: > Say, I've been meaning to install ataidle for awhile, as my server handles > approximately 3-5 requests for cvs per 24 hours, and I'm a pragmatic > believer in the dangers of global warming, and I've never had a disk go bad > on my old w2k systems, even though they spun up/down at least 20-50 times a > day (on my desktop). > > It's non-obivous, however, from the docs/man wether ataide makes persistent > changes, or if you need to run it from cron, rc, etc. Anyone know the > 'proper' usage for ataidle? > > I found this: http://andreas.syndrom23.de/drupal/files/ataidle which might > be of general interest to folks along these same lines. No idea if it's > correct usage, however. > > Thanks, > Steve You only need to run it once at startup to set the various acoustic and idle time settings. If you know you won't be needing your disks after a specific time a cronjob (spinning down the disks immidiately) might be a good method too. Regards, Pieter