From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 10:53:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1805B37B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 10:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pat.uio.no (pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54CD43F75 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 10:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heikkis@ifi.uio.no) Received: from mail-mx1.uio.no ([129.240.10.29]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19IuFg-0003ea-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:53:16 +0200 Received: from [129.240.130.14] (helo=mons.uio.no) by mail-mx1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19IuFe-0008EX-Cc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:53:14 +0200 Received: from snipp.uio.no ([129.240.130.63]) by mons.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19IuFe-00001C-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:53:14 +0200 Received: from ves-dhcp115.studby.uio.no ([129.240.102.145] helo=c-ko) by snipp.uio.no with smtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19IuFd-0004EN-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:53:14 +0200 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:57:20 +0200 From: heikki soerum To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030522195720.7f48b49a.heikkis@ifi.uio.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact postmaster@uio.no for more information X-UiO-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:53:21 -0000 I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-stable on an Mini ITX Epia system. (onboard C3 800 mhz, Video, sound, NIC, TV-out, 2 ATA IDE controllers.) Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? I'm building an fileserver with several disks that won't be used more than a couple of hours each day, and in the mean time I would like to reduce the noise level by putting the ATA harddrives in sleep/suspend mode with an timeout. This is an *critical* abillity, I like FreeBSD a lot, but without this functionality I'l have to run linux and use hdparm to reduce the noise to an acceptable level. Heikki Soerum. -- - "In My Not so Humble Opinion"