From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 7 12:14:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5E016A4DA for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 12:14:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B20643D6D for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 12:14:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.22] (andersonbox2.centtech.com [192.168.42.22]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j47CDxDp033233; Sat, 7 May 2005 07:13:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <427CB103.807@centtech.com> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:13:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050504 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Pisati References: <20050507121517.GA1463@tin.it> In-Reply-To: <20050507121517.GA1463@tin.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD_Hackers Subject: Re: Spin down hard disk: any suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 12:14:01 -0000 Paolo Pisati wrote: > As the subject says i'm trying to spin down/turn off/ > put in energy safe/etcetc automatically > my usb disk. > > I'm running 5.x and the only way to reliably calm down > my disk was to umount it. > > The 'trick' was to use automount and periodically > check & umount it, but i thought there should be better > ways to handle it (or at least i hope so :). > (from: "Fun With Automounting on FreeBSD" - > http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html) > > Any other ideas/suggestions? > How do you do it? > Any help from the recent ATA/SCSI/CAM/etcetc driver? > > It's quite annoying when your brand new USB disk starts getting > hotter and hotter cause the bloody usb case is too little and > there's no air circulation/fan at all... I know ataidle works well for ATA disks, but not sure about scsi-types like USB (I would bet it won't work out-of-the-box, but you might be able to modify it?). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------