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From: Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: shutting down hard drive?
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Hi,

At Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:51:57 +1100,
Andrew Dean wrote:
> 
> This probably isn't the rihgt place to ask but guess it can't hurt.. anyone
> know how i can shut down or turn off a hard drive that i'm using to boot the
> picoBSD image with, as i dont want it to be used after its been booted (save
> hard drive life)
> 
> Any ideas besides unplugging it?
> 
> Andrew

Is this what you are looking for?

SCSI: camcontrol stop ...
ATA:

Subject: Re: ATA idle spindown patch.
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:16:02 -0700
From: Scott Renfro <scott@renfro.org>
To: JT <luser@ahab.com>
Cc: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=256787+262550+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010826.freebsd-mobile

-- 
Hiroharu Tamaru

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