From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 12: 9:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from reuben.meganet.net (reuben.meganet.net [209.213.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BD937B422 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from estair@computer-exchange.com) Received: from proxy (dial-tnt01-p2-158.bos.ma.meganet.net [209.213.73.158]) by reuben.meganet.net (8.9.3/8.9.1-BW0200.01SP) with SMTP id PAA02107 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:09:44 -0400 From: estair@computer-exchange.com Message-ID: <000901c0c904$77985ce0$4900a8c0@mshome.net> To: Subject: 'hdparm' equivalent for FreeBSD? Need to spin-down disks. Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:10:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all. I'm looking for a solution to this situation. I have a FBSD box with several KDE HD's that is only intermittently accessed over the network. I'd very much like to have the system sync and spin down the disks after a timeout period, and have them resume only when accessed. In Linux this is set by the 'hdparm' utility, however I've found no such equivalent in FreeBSD by searching the Handbook, Complete FreeBSD or web archives, or ports collection. ACPI/APM support possibly? Any recommendations welcome :) /eli To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message