Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:15:05 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Laurent LEVIER <llevier-lists@argosnet.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Power savings on USB Hard drives Message-ID: <47534A89.3010403@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20071202170922.E4574267CBD@mx.levier.org>
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Laurent LEVIER wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am using FreeBSD 6.2, soon 7.0 over a server and a laptop. > > I would like, on both configurations, to be able to have hard drive > power savings as on internal IDE drives. > > At the moment, my external USB2 drive, when mounted but even not > adresses, keeps running permanently despite it is just mounted for > backups (no access out of backup times on sunday then). > > I digged on mailing lists, but cant find why the HD keep running. > > Can someone help? > > Thanks in advance > > Brgrds This is outside the realm of acpi. Have you tried the ataidle ported application? It works for most internal drives but I'm not sure how it would do over USB. -- Natehelp
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