From owner-freebsd-small Mon Nov 4 23:11:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4975B37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from power.connexus.net.au (power.connexus.net.au [203.12.22.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5480F43E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:11:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrewdean@CONNEXUS.NET.AU) Received: from andrew17548 ([203.34.175.48]) by power.connexus.net.au (8.12.4/8.11.6) with SMTP id gA579dkW019918; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:09:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andrewdean@connexus.net.au) XAntiVirus: This e-mail has been scanned for viruses via the Connexus Internet Service Message-ID: <009501c2849a$4748d260$30af22cb@andrew17548> From: "Andrew Dean" To: "Hiroharu Tamaru" Cc: "Hiroharu Tamaru" , References: <200211041719.gA4HJiU00556@mail.cruzio.com><008301c28487$12622af0$30af22cb@andrew17548><008901c28497$9d2f0df0$30af22cb@andrew17548> Subject: Re: shutting down hard drive? Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:09:27 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "Andrew Dean" Cc: "Hiroharu Tamaru" ; 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