From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 19:58:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.carolina.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E47A37B401 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from voodoo ([24.25.86.114]) by mail7.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:58:08 -0500 Message-ID: <000801c08102$d3204900$0200a8c0@digitalavalanche.com> From: "Mike Gruver" To: Subject: How do I use apm to turn off harddrive when not in use? Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:57:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C080D8.E89F0200" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C080D8.E89F0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In the spirit of energy conservation, I have a FreeBSD server running = 24/7. Unfortunately I can't find anything in the system BIOS to control = the harddrive power management features. I have noticed that it is = spinning 24/7. I have loaded gnome so I can power down the monitor when = not in use. The only remaining repeat offender in the power management = catagory is the harddrive. I have cruised the man pages for apm but = can't seem to find anything to control the hard drive. Any suggestions? mgruver@carolina.rr.com ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C080D8.E89F0200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In the spirit of energy conservation, I = have a=20 FreeBSD server running 24/7. Unfortunately I can't find anything = in the=20 system BIOS to control the harddrive power management features. I = have=20 noticed that it is spinning 24/7. I have loaded gnome so I can = power down=20 the monitor when not in use. The only remaining repeat offender in = the=20 power management catagory is the harddrive. I have cruised the man = pages=20 for apm but can't seem to find anything to control the hard drive. = Any=20 suggestions?

mgruver@carolina.rr.com

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