Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:13:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@oltrelinux.com> Cc: FreeBSD_Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Spin down hard disk: any suggestions? Message-ID: <427CB103.807@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050507121517.GA1463@tin.it> References: <20050507121517.GA1463@tin.it>
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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