Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:44:13 -0600 From: Octavian Covalschi <octavian.covalschi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off Message-ID: <c0f49ea0903031744r319457ap43183fef9592ce2e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone. Is it possible to spin down HDD before it is powered off? My problem/concern is that when I call "shutdown -p now", the HDD is powered off at it's _full_ speed and as a result I hear a noise, which really concerns me. I'm afraid that this kind of shutdown will damage HDD. It's a new HDD, it works fine in Windows, I mean it shuts down w/o this noise. What I need(at least think I do) is to spin down or put into sleep mode HDD right before system will be powered off. I've tried to use atacontrol spindown but sync-ing disks wakes HDD again. I also tried ataidle -s my_dev which puts hdd into sleep mode, but again, same result, when it syncs disks it HDD is waken... Are there any solutions? Thank you in advance.
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