Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:31:31 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available? Message-ID: <200704112231.31908.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90704111316w38017613sd50718d901d37831@mail.gmail.com> References: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> <200704091751.27697.pieter@degoeje.nl> <539c60b90704111316w38017613sd50718d901d37831@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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