Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:09:27 +1100 From: "Andrew Dean" <andrewdean@CONNEXUS.NET.AU> To: "Hiroharu Tamaru" <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: "Hiroharu Tamaru" <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shutting down hard drive? Message-ID: <009501c2849a$4748d260$30af22cb@andrew17548> References: <200211041719.gA4HJiU00556@mail.cruzio.com><008301c28487$12622af0$30af22cb@andrew17548><sa61y604itf.wl@gin.myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp><008901c28497$9d2f0df0$30af22cb@andrew17548> <sa6znso33a7.wl@gin.myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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Yeah i was just looking at the source, woudl picoBSD pick this up? Its an old laptop that has no setting in the bios to spin down the hard drive :( ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hiroharu Tamaru" <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: "Andrew Dean" <andrewdean@connexus.net.au> Cc: "Hiroharu Tamaru" <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>; <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 6:05 PM Subject: Re: shutting down hard drive? > You definitely would need to apply the patch in there to get the MIB. > I don't know if it patches cleanly to a now-a-days source. > > By the way, on some machines/FreeBSD-versions, just setting in the > BIOS to spin down the HDD (usually in power menu) worked. You aren't > touching the disk after the boot (by unmounting it or other), right? > > At Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:50:22 +1100, > Andrew Dean wrote: > > > > Hmm Could be, Although I'm not tosure how to actually get it working... my > > sysctl doesn't seem to have a hw.ata.suspend > > -- > Hiroharu Tamaru > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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