Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:11:40 -0500 From: Derek Moeller <moeller@dophnic.yi.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: spinning down the drive Message-ID: <20000606161140.A8303@dophnic.yi.org>
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Under NetBSD, OpenBSD, and linux, there's a utility to put the hard drive
to sleep after a certain amount of time (atactl for the first two and hdparm for
the third). I've looked around through mailing list archives, and through a running
system, to try to figure out how to power down the hard drive (it's an APM 1.2
compliant BIOS, thinkpad i\1460) under freebsd, but I can't find a good way.
Is this possible? Are there significant hard drive power gains if it's spun
down in a laptop?
Thanks,
Derek Moeller
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