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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:19:51 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I'm sure you've heard this before...
Message-ID:  <20091029001951.000044b7@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <1d7089c40910281712r226c36b7h6838cb79b4c759a4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1d7089c40910281712r226c36b7h6838cb79b4c759a4@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400
Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to turn the disks off.
> 
> I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives.
> 
> On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using
> 7.2. 

If they're ATA drives you can use my ATAidle utility from
sysutils/ataidle.  In FreeBSD 7 you can also use the "spindown" command
that's been added to atacontrol(8).

-- 
Bruce Cran



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