From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 16:28:59 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 5197916A400 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:28:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53C213C48E for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so765791nfc for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:28:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=QS2UjY+KwLAqdGuo7XrVtvywtxi6va2t+Eu2qm8pLoWvygGyIDyN8+3P2DRJV//jICalOJZU2fSd1oYaWAtqy7Bo9Tm2ogJFyLQc/OMQThufSzQ5RrSv9fBwkYnYSDgxJ7tnVW30B6wZTdeTiReXvbIuaS8KYzZfPK7r2o9p42o= Received: by 10.82.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr1011873buc.1171470537557; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.11 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:28:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90702140828v1eab35c9lba6fd7e8b9deac8e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:28:57 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Daniel Rudy" In-Reply-To: <45D2C107.80307@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45D1DDA5.90207@gmail.com> <45D2C107.80307@pacbell.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 36199c34653609f7 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I manually turn off the HDD? 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, 14 Feb 2007 16:28:59 -0000 I had heard the "automounter" could accomplish this as well when I was researching the same topic, but never got around to trying it (had major problems with a raid driver instead) Steve On 2/14/07, Daniel Rudy wrote: > At about the time of 2/13/2007 10:58 AM, Chuck Swiger stated the following: > > On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > >> How can I turn off the HDD? .. and leave the buffers in the memory, > >> until the RAM is full .. then spin up the drive, write out the > >> data, then it turn off again. > > > > ENOTSUPPORTED, at least with FreeBSD. Note that Apple has done a lot > > of work to facilitate drive spindown for power-saving reasons for > > their laptops, so MacOS X will make a reasonable attempt to spindown > > the drives until really needed.... > > > > There is a port called ataidle that you may want to look at. It > programs the HDD to spin down after a specified timeout. > > -- > Daniel Rudy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089