Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:22:41 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Weiser <michael@weiser.dinsnail.net> Subject: Re: ata explicit idle/standby Message-ID: <200506190222.42111.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050618161744.GA993@weiser.dinsnail.net> References: <20050618161744.GA993@weiser.dinsnail.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:47, Michael Weiser wrote: > I've done a small patch to the -CURRENT atacontrol and ata driver to > allow explicit switch of drives to idle or standby mode and query the > current mode. I use it to spin down disks needed only very inregularly. > If extended by a means to set the idle timeout this might be > particularly useful to notebook users as well. Yes.. Combine with http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-May/000681.html to allow you to turn the drive off for a reasonable amount of time :) (That diff doesn't apply directly but it's trivial to apply by hand) > Or have I actually missed the some already present functionality to > achieve the same? There is a port (ataidle) which does this but I think having it in atacontrol is a good idea. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCtFFa5ZPcIHs/zowRAshFAJ9tjim2Ebau52kaTlREuBPyKJ8ygACdEO71 D/zIXdbHh/wuvKdFp2loYrw= =dn3F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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