From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 16:53:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D5B16A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:53:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8537243D1F for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:53:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5IGr7Hx044269; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:23:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:22:41 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050618161744.GA993@weiser.dinsnail.net> In-Reply-To: <20050618161744.GA993@weiser.dinsnail.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2234823.hKex3ltprg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506190222.42111.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Michael Weiser Subject: Re: ata explicit idle/standby X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:53:38 -0000 --nextPart2234823.hKex3ltprg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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..=20 Combine with=20 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-May/000681.html to=20 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 atacontr= ol=20 is a good idea. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart2234823.hKex3ltprg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCtFFa5ZPcIHs/zowRAshFAJ9tjim2Ebau52kaTlREuBPyKJ8ygACdEO71 D/zIXdbHh/wuvKdFp2loYrw= =dn3F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2234823.hKex3ltprg--