From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 16:33:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1221016A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBCE43D1D for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp110-54.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.110.54])i050XWp5040914; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:03:32 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i050XTU6016693; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:03:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Bruce Cran Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:03:28 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040101161519.GA4247@buffy.brucec.backnet> In-Reply-To: <20040101161519.GA4247@buffy.brucec.backnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401051103.28443.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:33:40 -0000 On Friday 02 January 2004 02:45, Bruce Cran wrote: > describes how to get a FreeBSD 5.1 or later computer to spin-down > ata hard drives - I've been searching for a while for a utility to > do this, and after failing to find one I decided to write it myself. > If people are interested I can add more power management features > and possibly create a package/port of it. Apologies if this is > off-topic for -hackers - I hope people might find this information > useful. This would probably best be made part of atacontrol (and submit a patch for it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5