From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 09:17:40 2005 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 981CF16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:17:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC9E43D2F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:17:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (unknown [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BCA4AC9A; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:13:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:18:14 +0100 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: Graham North Message-ID: <20050224091814.GA53859@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <421D75ED.3020405@telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <421D75ED.3020405@telus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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, 24 Feb 2005 09:17:40 -0000 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 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/