From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 17 16:06:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27426 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jli.com (jli.com [199.2.111.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA27418 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trost@cloud.rain.com) Received: (qmail 10544 invoked by uid 4); 17 Sep 1998 23:05:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 23578 invoked from network); 17 Sep 1998 23:05:14 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO cloud.rain.com) (127.0.0.1) by softdnserror with SMTP; 17 Sep 1998 23:05:14 -0000 To: Oliver Paulzen cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to power down librettos' disk References: <19980917230958.62756@sunday.MuFFiN.Org> In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:09:58 +0200. <19980917230958.62756@sunday.MuFFiN.Org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <23524.906073512.1@cloud.rain.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:05:13 -0700 Message-ID: <23544.906073513@cloud.rain.com> From: Bill Trost Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oliver Paulzen writes: Is there a way to manually shut down the disk of my Libretto 50ct (or any other IDE drive)? It's not done automatically, even with a very high kern.update-time and no power plugged in. Manual shut down is sort of in the works, as I understand (and hope). Part of the problem, from my experience, is that there are daemons writing to the disk at regular, frequent intervals that destroy any hope of actually having the disk spin down for decent time period anyhow. For example, cron writes out everything it attempts to run, and it inkvokes atrun every 5 minutes (I backed that off a fair amount, which may have helped). On the other hand, I find it improbable that I can have the disk spin down and still do useful work. Between MH keeping every message in a separate file, and my own habit of saving files after every minor change, it is only the occassional multi-page document that even gives the machine a chance to spin down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message