Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:18:14 +0100 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout? Message-ID: <20050224091814.GA53859@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <421D75ED.3020405@telus.net> References: <421D75ED.3020405@telus.net>
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:36:29PM -0800, Graham North wrote: > I stumbled on this post by you - but not resolving answers - I have the > same question? > >> Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode >> without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? I don't know the right answer to this, but the following work-around may help: # atacontrol detach <channelnumber> has the nice side effect of spinning down the detached drives. WARNING: Don't detach drives (channels) with mounted file systems. Umount first, then detach! Use at your own risk! Cheers, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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