From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 25 22: 8:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from k9.rose.nu (adsl-63-196-10-163.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.196.10.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971AE37B4EC for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:08:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rose@rose.nu) Received: from localhost (rose@localhost) by k9.rose.nu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA47106 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rose@k9.rose.nu) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:08:17 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Rose To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE Drive spindown timeout Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would like this to work, too. I have the exact same situation. This can be done easily with scsi drives. Is there some reason that we can't spin down ide drives? Steve Rose "Joe Gleason" wrote: > I have searched the lists and haven't found any answer to this question. > Is there a way to either force an IDE drive to spindown or set the idle > timeout for it? > I have a drive that I use for backups. I would like to have it spin down, > use less power and make less noise when not in use. > atapci1: port > 0x8000-0x803f,0x7c00-0x7c03,0x7800-0x7807,0x7400-0x7403,0x7000-0x7007 mem > 0xe4000000-0xe401ffff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0 > ata2: at 0x7000 on atapci1 > ata3: at 0x7800 on atapci1 > > ad4: 73308MB [148945/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 > ad6: 73308MB [148945/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message