From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 01:11:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6294716A4CE; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ftp.ccrle.nec.de (ftp.netlab.nec.de [195.37.70.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39EC43D45; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de) Received: from [10.1.1.112] (scout.netlab.nec.de [195.37.70.100]) by ftp.ccrle.nec.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE1DF674; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:15:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20040406080117.GA36836@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040406080117.GA36836@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lars Eggert Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:10:53 +0200 To: Tim Robbins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol & automatic acoustic management X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:11:14 -0000 Tim, On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:01, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:41:03AM +0200, Lars Eggert wrote: >> >> I have a Western Digital WD2000JB that according to atacontrol is >> capable of automatic acoustic management, which is disabled (also >> according to atacontrol). >> >> Is there any way to enable this under FreeBSD? > > The sysutils/ataidle port appears to be able to control acoustic > management, but I've only ever used it spin down idle disks. thanks, ataidle looks very promising - I hadn't even thought about searching ports... Lars -- Lars Eggert NEC Network Laboratories