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From: Luuk van Dijk <Luuk.van.Dijk@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: how to set ata disk spindown timeout
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:17:32 +0200
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LS.

Is it possible in freebsd to set spindown timeouts
on ata drives. I have a machine that is only a
dialup router, and does not need its disk after a
while.  in linux I can say hdparm -S 12 /dev/hda
to make it stop rotating (andmaking noise)
Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD.

Thanks,
	L.


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